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This is terrible. What a waste of effort! We have a machine that translates a simple fact into few paragraphs of text, so that thousands of people can spend tim
by asgard1024 13y ago
This is terrible. What a waste of effort! We have a machine that translates a simple fact into few paragraphs of text, so that thousands of people can spend time trying to do exact reverse when they read it.
Why don't they just publish raw facts in the computer readable form?
- christiansmith 13y agoThat might work well for someone with domain expertise. But not everyone is prepared to look at raw data and instantly extrapolate meaning. Taken to an absurd extreme, do you also think that machine translation between languages is also a terrible waste of effort? Why not just learn to read kanji fluently and skip the extra step?
- asgard1024 13y agoIf the computer adds some additional analysis to the data, autonomously, then it would be fair that reader should understand the nature of the analysis. With humans, we kind of live with it because we know they have common sense, so we kind of know what we can expect (or maybe, humans understand what are our needs). With automated translation or adding titles, we understand the process. But in automated writing? I am worried a lot of effort will be wasted trying to figure this out.