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So what? Lots of amazing research is being spearheaded by English-as-a-second-language learners these days, I don’t think it detracts from the idea in the mind

by gcr 2y ago

So what? Lots of amazing research is being spearheaded by English-as-a-second-language learners these days, I don’t think it detracts from the idea in the minds of the target audience. Some day soon, I wouldn’t be surprised if most applied AI research might happen in Mandarin the way most fundamental physics research once happened in German. I’ll have the opposite problem then. If I show ESL speakers some kindness now, maybe they’ll show the same respect when I try to write papers in “broken” Chinese someday :)

zarzavat 2y ago
The point is that they are comparing the English comprehension of various models, but their examples range from slightly incorrect to incomprehensible English. They don’t seem to be aware of this, because if you were intentionally testing on incorrect English you would also test on correct English as well to be able to quantify the difference. If I was writing a paper about AI comprehension of Italian and I was not confident at speaking Italian I would definitely want to ask an Italian speaker to check my examples for me.