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by SushiHippie 813 days ago
They use neural machine translation [0] models, they are artificial neural networks, but I don't think that you can really call them "AI".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation

See also:

https://browser.mt/

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on...

1 comments

Firefox's translation feature was built on Mozilla's Bergamot collab with Europe. It's an NMT as you note but it's also a set of language models trained on large language corpora using, among other techniques, the transformer architecture, so people calling it LLM translation don't bother me at all, and I'm the guy that brought it to Firefox (with my architect partner Andre Natal). The best article is probably https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/training-efficient-neural-... though that was before we started integrating it into Firefox proper.
Thanks for the work you do, and your reply, very interesting!