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pokedude900 posted...

That's not a foreign language. That's English to more flowery English. Different languages have completely different rules and syntax. Japanese is especially difficult for machines to understand because it's normal to remove the subject of a sentence if it can be inferred through context clues. Every single time I run a paragraph of Japanese text through a translator, it struggles to accurately portray who is speaking to whom or even get the pronouns right.

True, but language translators are getting much better at this too.

I took that sentence, translated it into japanese characters using chatgpt, then asked it to translate the japanese back to english (in a seperate tab). It punched back this:

"I went to the supermarket and bought some things for dinner. My wife and I were in the mood for a big celebration, so we invited some friends. It was a really enjoyable time."

Basically what's kind of scary impressive is how rapidly this stuff is improving iin just the past couple of years. It feels like it's accelerating all the time.