[Kuinox]

Yet translation was the main application for applied language machine learning.

[TeMPOraL]

When would've thought that to solve natural language translation, one would first need to solve... natural language.

All those arguments about agents and hallucinations kind of distracted people from noticing we've accodentally built a universal translator.

[Kuinox]

It's been at least 10 years that google translate had hallucinations. Some translation simply change depending of a ponctuation mark. But peoples complain only now that they heard about AI.

Of course it's not perfect, but I agree that we didn't had a machine translation as good before.

[krige]

As someone both exposed to this new wave of LLM style translation in various media, and someone who has background in translation, no we didn't.