[pshc]

What’s wild to me is that we have basically manifested the Babel Fish in the last few years.

[th0ma5]

Huh? We've had pretty good translation in some languages in many general purpose contexts for a while. The LLM stuff if you're referring to that to my knowledge only has some gains in some languages in some contexts. Which is exciting no doubt.

[pshc]

Compared to google translate of yore, it’s gotten way more fluent thanks to transformers. Good translation relies heavily on context of course. Voice recognition and text to speech quality have increased dramatically. And near real-time (or as real-time as is possible given a pair of languages) is becoming feasible.