Hector Martin

Translating means understanding jokes and coming up with new ones in the target language. Translating means keeping in your head the full context of whatever you're translating and reasoning about it. Translating means knowing what is going to happen in the story in the *future*.

Have you ever read a professionally translated book? Ever encounter a pun? Do you think that came straight from the exact same pun in the original book? It didn't. The translator put that in, either as a replacement for a different pun that is untranslatable, or to fit the mood.

An AI that could do that might as well be human itself and be given human rights. Machine learning cannot do that, no matter how much you "train" it. You're taking about true Artificial Intelligence, which does not exist yet.

That was my point from the very beginning. And machine learning is not capable of that. Just ask any machine learning expert. That's not how it works.

Yes, there is. Because a true AI is not something you "train" and then "use" just like a human is not something you "train" and then "use". A true AI is something that has to *live, experience, and learn on its own*.