[nine_k]

Did you notice how closed captions generated from videos became really good? Did you notice that machine translation became usable for everyday tasks? Did you notice that you can direct your phone at an inscription in a language unknown to you, and get a translation put at the same spot on the picture, and an explanation of it read aloud to you? Does it make your very real life easier?

All this stuff used to be high-end research with unstable and hardly usable results like 10 years ago.

[JohnFen]

> Did you notice how closed captions generated from videos became really good?

I've noticed the exact opposite over the last year or so. They've become riddled with errors of the sort that actively mislead people about what was actually said.

> Does it make your very real life easier?

So far, generative AI has not made my very real life any easier. It has made it more uncertain, though, and has made it harder to trust anything I am not seeing/hearing in person.

[bamboozled]

It's good but for some languages, like Japanese, it can be pretty freaking wacky.