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Most of those things weren't very good before AI was applied. Translation specifically was pretty bad before Google applied machine learning methods to it arou
by criddell 11mo ago
Most of those things weren't very good before AI was applied.
Translation specifically was pretty bad before Google applied machine learning methods to it around 2007 when it became very good almost overnight.
- mort96 11mo agoGoogle Translate isn't what's meant when tech CEOs say "AI" in 2025.
- johannes1234321 11mo agoWhat tech CEO says is "a text box with magic" Google translate fulfills that and there are ways to integrate with LLM if technology marketing is important. Unless it is nVidia's CEO, who wants to sell specific hardware, they mostly care about the buzz of the term, not a specific technology, though.
- jorvi 11mo agoGoogle Translation never "became very good" and it still isn't when you compare it to DeepL or Kagi. Where it excels is quantity. Often, niche languages are only available on Google Translate.
- criddell 11mo agoGoogle Translate became very good compared to what came before it. Other stuff is better now and one day we will say the tools of today are trash.
- jorvi 11mo agoNo, even when they switched to machine learning their translations still made mistakes that would have made you look goofy. And even today their models still make mistakes that are just weird. It is especially baffling because Google has much better data sets and much more compute than their competitors.
- amrocha 11mo agoStop blurring the lines, google translate using machine learning has nothing to do with turning firefox into an ai browser
- nani8ot 11mo agoIt has everything to do with it. Mozilla explicitly talked about AI in the context of their relatively new translation feature a year or two back. Live captions also uses "AI". The term AI includes machine learning in marketing speech.
- amrocha 11mo agoIf that was the case that means Firefox is already an AI browser. But he wouldn’t be talking about AI browsers if he planned on maintaining the current features and approach, would he?