[dkaleta]

Some people mentioned that the translation/conversation can feel pretty off. But there is a much more fundamental problem here. If you want to be fluent, you need to spend hundreds of hours speaking the language. It is really difficult to speak for hours to a machine that doesn't express any emotions and is not excited about anything.

Humans, when speaking the language, connect to other humans through emotions and feelings. That is what gets us going. That is what keeps the conversation interesting (even for intermediate students).

This is the same reason why ads from Apple always show how family meets, or a kid scores a goal in a match and not just simply says "1.8GHz, 4GB ram" that only speaks to our neocortex.

That's why unless computers pass the Turing test, it is unlikely this will "enable people to talk their way to fluency".

I do agree though it is a cool tech.

[Tepix]

> It is really difficult to speak for hours to a machine that doesn't express any emotions and is not excited about anything.

I spoke few french phrases with it and it explained to me why it loves french.