Delirium wrote:
Sabine Cretella wrote:
Never ever a machine will be able to translate correctly - not now, not tomorrow, not in 100 years - it's a dream many have - sorry, I must destroy it.
A pedantic point, but this is assuming that machines are not capable of human-level intelligence. Many in the AI community would beg to differ. =]
(Although whether it'll be 10, 20, 50, 100, or 500 years before an artificial intelligence can learn things like languages with the same or better aptitude as humans is a matter of debate.)
I would call Sabine's comment realistic rather than pedantic. I realize that technophiles dream of these artificial solutions, but the best they can realistically hope for is competent interpretation of technical material. When it comes to metaphor technophiles are playing in the right field of dreams. (I wonder how a machine would translate that into the language of people who know nothing about baseball.)
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