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pokedude900 posted...

Losing context like that is a pretty fucking huge deal for professional translation, dude.

And we're still only talking about the matter of base-level accuracy. A proper translation of something like a story needs a deep understanding of who the characters are and who they're talking to. Like the different ways one can show respect or disrespect to someone. In Japanese it may be through omitting or adding certain particles, while in English it may mean swearing or using more formal language. Even if you have an "accurate" translation, it will be a really dry one without a real human looking it over and making adjustments.

It was able to nail nearly every aspect of the paragraph, with the last bit something that could be easily explained. And this is now. The question was, "will it ever be able to?"

I agree with you on the subtleties of human interaction though, that's obviously harder for it to learn/get right.

And at that point, why not have said human translate it from the start?

The same reason we use AI for anything. Time and expertise. I don't know arabic, japanese, mandarin or norwegian. but I was able to get a niche topic translated almost entirely correctly across all of these languages without any skill or time.

The use-case for this is pretty obvious. It may not be as perfect as a human translator, but it's incredibly more accessible. How many genuine polyglots do you know? I don't know if I've ever met anyone who spoke more than a 3 or 4 languages to anymore degree of accuracy than what this just spat out.