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It's incredibly good autocomplete, though! I remember the 90s, and the time when translation programs were truly awful. They had pretty much no memory, not kno
by dale_glass 2y ago
It's incredibly good autocomplete, though!
I remember the 90s, and the time when translation programs were truly awful. They had pretty much no memory, not knowing what "it", or "she" might refer to, from the previous sentence. They tended to pick a translation based on the selected dictionary, and choked on typos and trademarks. A popular past time in my neck of the woods was feeding a translator the manual for a computer mouse, selecting the medical dictionary and giggling at all the incoherent talk about mouse testicles and their removal and cleaning procedures.
In light of that, ChatGPT is scifi magic. It translates very well, it deals with informal speech, it can deal with typos, and you can even feed it a random meme JPG and it'll tell you what's it about. It's really like living in the future.