It's kind of perplexing how Google Translate has not improved at all (apparently), given that the "transformer" paper ("Attention is all you need") that kicksta

It's kind of perplexing how Google Translate has not improved at all (apparently), given that the "transformer" paper ("Attention is all you need") that kickstarted this whole LLM thing was published by Google(rs) intended for translation (between English and French)... As a sibling mentioned it's probably something about cost, but given the narrow domain and the performance of smaller models on translation tasks, I'm surprised they're still doing the same old thing in 2024....