“AI translation will become flawless [in five years]”—@slatestarcodex
OK, I’ll take the other side of that bet. That would really surprise me. (Maybe we mean different things by “translation” or “flawless”?)http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/15/five-more-years/ …
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Is this even a contentious point? There's a bunch of theorising about how language works but the idea that we have figured it out in the same way as, say, the periodic table is ridiculous
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@slatestarcodex was attributing that claim to hypothetical critics of AI who would use it to explain why flawless translation is not impressive or surprising. He didn’t put a number on translation sucess, so maybe that whole bit was supposed to be a joke? - 1 more reply
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I'm not sure I totally agree. I think of it as a very large, evolving, messy formal system. Main issue is that is fraught with ambiguity (e.g. pronouns) - but that can be formalized. Interpretation remains tricky and flawless translation would really surprise me.
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Maybe it could possible to "fuzz" the surrounding context satisfyingly enough and use that as a disambiguation key that works in most cases?
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Yes, this surprised me a lot. Flawless translation? That's a full-on AGI problem you got there... A loose notion of "flawless" and only matter-of-fact type texts in mind probably accounts for it.
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Hofstadter had a very nice recent piece on just that: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/ …
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Flawless- does that mean "usable"?
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Human translation will never be "flawless", even when performed by the original human!
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