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by empiricus 3061 days ago
I was expecting this reply to be like "yes translation is not yet perfect but we have some ideas how to fix this, and the solution is different than what Hofstadter thinks". Instead it was more like "AlphaGo is different from humans, airplanes are different from birds, and deep translation is different(better?) from human translation."
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And self-driving cars may not get drunk but they'll kill you in different ways than humans do (think software errors, or hacking).

He may actually have a point there.