“… and we will hear how language is just a formal system that can be brute-forced without understanding [so it doesn’t count].” —@slatestarcodex
That’s why it would really surprise me: language is utterly NOT a formal system.
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At a guess, they’ve switched from a straightforward HMM to DL voodoo, because Google has adopted DL as its official religion.
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I would guess that by 2023 Google will have quietly deep-sixed almost all its DL uses. I’d put a number on that if I hadn’t been doing chores-from-hell for 18 hours straight.
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"AI translation will be flawless" straight up just means "AI will be flawless". Language is GAI-hard.
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Yes, that’s my take (with ~.97 certainty)
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Yeah, almost certainly human-complete. Scott updated the text in response to others pointing this out.
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Now read that post, actually
@slatestarcodex *doesn't* say that AI translation will become flawless, just that *if* it becomes "outstanding" then it will be dismissed as a parlor trick. But AI translation is not in the list of predictions. -
He updated the text (see strikeout) at some time after I tweeted. (Probably in response to comments on the post rather than my tweet)
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Ha ha ha oh wow. I'm willing to predict that even in ten years, we still won't have a good formalized way to assess translations and check whether they are "flawless", much less anything that could accomplish that objective.
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