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by rapsey 1226 days ago
Not only that it is probably the best translation engine ever made. It translates incredibly well. This is likely one of the industries that is going to be hit severely.
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I tried using it to translate subtitles for a movie and the results were pretty bad. I found DeepL giving marginally better results but those were pretty bad as well. To the point that I uploaded the subtitles in opensubtitles.org and they were taken down because of very low quality.
It’s able to translate dead languages reasonably well, too. I asked it to translate various text into Pali and it did a good job, and did a reasonable job providing the text of various Buddhist sutta and decent translations into English.
My wife speaks Bemba - a fairly common language in South-central Africa. I just asked it to translate a sentence to Bemba and it failed miserably. What it put out wasn't even Bemba, she didn't know what language it was.
I guess is it common on the internet? Pali is widely translated and referred to and available (in the Buddhist canon, the original Buddhist teaches were first written in Pali and so it’s widely studied ala Latin). I was impressed but not surprised it was able to do it.
depending on the domain !! it is absolutely confident, right, wrong or in the middle.. actually "dangerous" if you think about a few contexts