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being anti AI is a luxury belief only available to first world people, especially Americans imagine how important machine translation is for people whose first languages aren't that common

Language translation is not an AI function. There’s no intelligence in it and merely a lookup function. Stop pretending every computer function is somehow AI.

all contemporary computer translation services use language models more or less identical to the usual suspects, they've used machine learning algorithms for something like 15 years and transformer architectures specifically for over half a decade.

So they are just lookup functions with a bloated name. Intelligence would allow a word derived from two root meanings to be worked out. AI only does that if it’s told what the answer is from its data. It can’t ’work out’ anything.

go ask an llm what an invented term like “SEOslop” should mean, i guarantee they’ll get it

An AI will never create a portmanteau or understand ine unless someone tells it beforehand what it means.

congrats you have discovered the central problematic of the last 200 years of linguistics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty...

oomfie can we not do chomsky propaganda in this thread universal grammar has been dead and buried for like 30 years

ChatGPT created a portmanteau unasked in an interaction I had with it last year.

"bAIt and switch" was right there

from gemini: can you show an example portmanteau that def isn't in your training data, and define it, in under 200char? > Keycrastination (Keyboard + Procrastination): Typing random text on a blank screen just to look productive while completely avoiding actual work.