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The value of LLM is reliable high quality translation between all languages. The economic value of this is at least trillions of dollars per year. The cultural

The value of LLM is reliable high quality translation between all languages. The economic value of this is at least trillions of dollars per year. The cultural and humanitarian value is equally gigantic, even if it can't be measured in dollars and cents.

munk-a 1y ago
That is of immense social value - but manual translation services for commercial projects (like application localization) is already dirt cheap to do and automatic casual translation services for consumers would be incredibly difficult to monetize.
- carlosjobim 1y ago
  I think your perspective might be severely limited. There exists millions of businesses outside of big IT enterprises.
  - munk-a 1y ago
    I will freely admit this - but I have led a localization effort on a mobile game and worked on localization for a desktop application. I am also lucky enough to travel abroad quite a bit and am quite familiar with consumer offerings. So I would fairly limit my experience to consumer and medium-sized business uses - I have no experience with large corporate translation efforts (the largest would probably be Ubisoft or the Mouse-Ears company's gaming divisions if you consider them large) and even the small mobile game company I worked at had a budget in the millions range. It certainly hasn't been a focus of my career but I feel comfortable standing by my statement above.
    - carlosjobim 1y ago
      You're only taking about IT stuff, while tourism is one of the largest global industries. Not to mention hundreds of other sectors which will benefit from better international communication.
carlosjobim 1y ago
I notice that angry hackers are going nuts with their down votes. Make an argument instead if you have something to say. Tourism and travel is one of the worlds largest industries, and companies in that sector can improve their revenue with double digits if they can reach and communicate with more customers. That's real impact, which is worth something, while hacker votes are worth nothing.

munk-a 1y ago

That is of immense social value - but manual translation services for commercial projects (like application localization) is already dirt cheap to do and automatic casual translation services for consumers would be incredibly difficult to monetize.

carlosjobim 1y ago
I think your perspective might be severely limited. There exists millions of businesses outside of big IT enterprises.
- munk-a 1y ago
  I will freely admit this - but I have led a localization effort on a mobile game and worked on localization for a desktop application. I am also lucky enough to travel abroad quite a bit and am quite familiar with consumer offerings. So I would fairly limit my experience to consumer and medium-sized business uses - I have no experience with large corporate translation efforts (the largest would probably be Ubisoft or the Mouse-Ears company's gaming divisions if you consider them large) and even the small mobile game company I worked at had a budget in the millions range. It certainly hasn't been a focus of my career but I feel comfortable standing by my statement above.
  - carlosjobim 1y ago
    You're only taking about IT stuff, while tourism is one of the largest global industries. Not to mention hundreds of other sectors which will benefit from better international communication.

carlosjobim 1y ago

I notice that angry hackers are going nuts with their down votes. Make an argument instead if you have something to say. Tourism and travel is one of the worlds largest industries, and companies in that sector can improve their revenue with double digits if they can reach and communicate with more customers. That's real impact, which is worth something, while hacker votes are worth nothing.