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SE Gyges
@segyges.bsky.social

being anti AI is a luxury belief only available to first world people, especially Americans imagine how important machine translation is for people whose first languages aren't that common

aly
@aly.codes

all contemporary computer translation services use language models more or less identical to the usual suspects, they've used machine learning algorithms for something like 15 years and transformer architectures specifically for over half a decade.

graham-o.bsky.social
@graham-o.bsky.social

So they are just lookup functions with a bloated name. Intelligence would allow a word derived from two root meanings to be worked out. AI only does that if it’s told what the answer is from its data. It can’t ’work out’ anything.

aly
@aly.codes

this is not actually true, linguists have been using machine learning for comparative linguistics and reconstruction for many years. it's actually quite trivial and you can, in fact, produce novel results.

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aly
@aly.codes

you are basically trying to make this sound as stupid as possible and it's just making you look uneducated lol. making something reliably sound stupid implies you actually understand what's happening here.

graham-o.bsky.social
@graham-o.bsky.social

No, you are trying to give AI far more credit than it deserves as you are either in the industry and dont like being told your product is crap, or you are desperate ro sell it as a working concept whwn it clearly isnt. AI makes up shit all the time so it’s about as intelligent as a two year old.