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Adam Chrenko's avatar

Great, balanced article and take on this matter

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sushan 1234's avatar

We have rule-based, statistical, neural, adaptive, phrase based blah bla bla.. Machine Translations in market. AI the Artificial intelligence may be Machine Translations or AI translation base is tuning and training

Today also, main aspect of AI Translation or MT is to translate no subject matters. This making a very strong impact on Subject Domains. Content in specific domain results are well below standard

In other words it is not that, “Machine Translation Poisoned our Understanding of AI” but, MT and AI has a lot scope of development in specific domains

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Daniel Hickey's avatar

Hey! I am Daniel, the Head of Content at Bureau Works and Gabriel's editor for these articles! I will answer comments where I can!

I am not sure I follow all of what you mean here, but the way that we see it at BW is that generative AI creates a new paradigm in translation tech because of what it can do aside from translate. It can translate, but it isn't much different from neural in that sense. What is unique about generative AI is how it can help reconcile with output of different MTs with other knowledge bases and sources of context.

But, in many ways it has been marketed as just the newest version of MT. That is what we mean when we say our understanding has been poisoned. We think of it in terms of what we already understand (MT) instead of in terms of something new.

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