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"But maybe I will ask Claude’s opinion, and if one of the suggestions is smart—cutting a paragraph, for instance, or clarifying a sentence—I might accept it.
When I started translating 15 years ago, we used to paste uncooperative sentences into Google Translate to see if it had interesting ways to phrase things differently. Then came DeepL—same idea."
Despite the protests, he admits using AI and then charging his clients full price... "But maybe I will ask Claude’s opinion, and if one of the suggestions is smart—cutting a paragraph, for instance, or clarifying a sentence—I might accept it. When I started translating 15 years ago, we used to paste uncooperative sentences into Google Translate to see if it had interesting ways to phrase things differently. Then came…
I do admit testing AI. Hell, most of the time, I don't have the choice anymore—I don't use it but several of my clients send AI-translated documents. Do I just send back a CHatGPT version? Hell no. This is why and how I know it's not reliable or good.
It's not exactly taboo to use AI, is it? IT doesn't have to be all or nothing. AI is great for my glossaries. AI is shit to translate.
An honest to god article full of em dashes that's not because it was AI but because it was a human using them as a crutch to get around crafting sentences that flow naturally. Almost brings a tear to my eye.
Also, I like em dashes.
And if this is my worst sin, so be it.
An honest to god article full of em dashes that's not because it was AI but because it was a human using them as a crutch to get around crafting sentences that flow naturally. Almost brings a tear to my eye.
Either it's LLM generated, or it's written by someone who wants to be ambiguous about using LLMs. Either way, I'm not reading it, it's a clanker or a clanker collaborationist. I mean, how would you even write an em dash? There's no button in the keyboard for em dashes, it's not in ascii, it's just not something we write in internet text with, it's a safety watermark put into LLMs by OpenAI to help making LLM generate…
Sorry if I like em dashes.
It's alt + 151 BTW.
"we all more or less look the same in gym clothes" Maybe my brain works differently than the author, but I'm surprised at this statement. Gym clothes don't change recognition for me, it's about the face, body, posture, clothes don't really enter into it. For me it is nonsensical enough to be suspicious. And for a human centric perspective, not recognizing who someone is sad, it's knowing that you probably won't meet…
I'm a real person.
And I'm shit at recognizing people I don't interact with. PIcture 50 of us in black legging in front of a mirror...!
Marijuana ilegal
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Close. They will be unemployed because AI be "good enough" and companies won't care about it being better. Nothing they mentioned was really about principles. Everything was about quality output. Too bad companies dont care about quality.
Exactly, companies and even NGOs/charities that might be past clients of hers will only look at costs, not her experience.
if the translation is good enough to solve their problem, then it doesn't need to be any better.
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if it was valuable, people would pay for it
That’s not how it works. Value for users doesn’t translate 1:1 into value for businesses, nor are either necessarily willing to pay for value. That’s why things enshittify.
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It does not have to be brushed away as "brute force" necessarily. We can, and do, build more reliable systems out of less reliable components. In fact, most industrial engineering accepts some defect rate and builds margins around it. Software is no different. Even without AI, you already have buggy compilers and buggy OSes and buggy libraries. You just tend to accept the risk because you have some idea of what the f…
> you already have buggy compilers and buggy OSes and buggy libraries. Which run, I must add, on effectively infallible hardware. Most of the software straight up assumes that the CPUs and the RAM will function perfectly and don't bother even trying to detect such failures (unless those failures manifest themselves in a catastrophic manner, the show will simply go on). So in effect, we also can, and do, build less re…
You'd be laughed at if you said that ChatGPT could help you with graduate level mathematics in 2024, but this year, AI models on simple prompts are solving previously unsolved Erdos problems. It seems silly to imagine that there is some fundamental barrier between human intelligence and AI, and that AI could never do many of the things that humans can do. Inferring intent, gauging sentiments, factoring in cultural va…
> You'd be laughed at if you said that ChatGPT could help you with graduate level mathematics in 2024, but this year, AI models on simple prompts are solving previously unsolved Erdos problems. I'm curious, do you have a graduate degree in mathematics?