Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
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Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
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Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#2You can't stop evolution ?
Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#3Having seen GPT4 translation quality, it translates to and from english better than me in a language I am very fluent in. So unfortunately translation jobs are mostly going away. The problem is that this is all going to be very sudden. And people working these industries just don't have any time at all to prepare.
Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#4You can't stop evolution ?
we could have a social system to reduce or even eliminate the human suffering it causes, but i guess the powerful prefer to repeat the 19th century process of steam engines basically eliminating the previous middle class of artisans into poverty.
It is also getting hard to preview what is not going to be automated in the middle or beginning of a career...
PS: Not to mention, Gizmodo also cut ORIGINAL spanish language journalism, when at least this part still would add value alongside the translated articles. Maybe they really don't care about the spanish speakers.
Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#5You can't stop evolution ?
I say this to all the artists who attack the very existence of AI. The cat's out of the bag already, we're either going to move with the times or they will keep moving without us, as they always have.
Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#6Having seen GPT4 translation quality, it translates to and from english better than me in a language I am very fluent in. So unfortunately translation jobs are mostly going away. The problem is that this is all going to be very sudden. And people working these industries just don't have any time at all to prepare.
Definitely not my experience or other people I know who use it, at least for Mandarin / Japanese. Also doesn't seem to preserve a writing style, which is important for branding / marketing.
Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#7Having seen GPT4 translation quality, it translates to and from english better than me in a language I am very fluent in. So unfortunately translation jobs are mostly going away. The problem is that this is all going to be very sudden. And people working these industries just don't have any time at all to prepare.
Yup. For a couple dozen languages, GPT-4 is by far the best translator you can get your hands on (better than deepl, google, papago etc).
also current MT benchmarks are completely broken for whatever reason (benchmark itself and/or evaluation model ). They don't reflect reality at all.
Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#8Having seen GPT4 translation quality, it translates to and from english better than me in a language I am very fluent in. So unfortunately translation jobs are mostly going away. The problem is that this is all going to be very sudden. And people working these industries just don't have any time at all to prepare.
I am amazed that this statement is unqualified. There is not one ounce of doubt that some strains of language thought are very well suited to translation, while others really are not. On tech forums, so much is assumed to be formal writing for work. That is not the only kind of writing. As much as I believe you, and I do, there are realms of written words that just will not yield to fast-spinning tumblers IMHO. (those with formal linguistic and grammar training maybe jump in here.. )
Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#9Having seen GPT4 translation quality, it translates to and from english better than me in a language I am very fluent in. So unfortunately translation jobs are mostly going away. The problem is that this is all going to be very sudden. And people working these industries just don't have any time at all to prepare.
Definitely not my experience or other people I know who use it, at least for Mandarin / Japanese. Also doesn't seem to preserve a writing style, which is important for branding / marketing.
In my experience, GPT-4's Chinese-to-English translation is the best I've seen, easily surpassing Deepl and Google Translate. However, its English-to-Chinese translation performs at a level similar to Deepl.
Re: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
#10Sad, working as a translator many years ago was a job I found easy, relaxing and pressure free.