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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by DiThi on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:55AM (#15635849)
> "Almost overnight, the quality of [Google's] translations skyrocketed." In certain languages, and still dependent on the human brain to reparse the not-quite-gibberish into something that makes sense.

But it happened replacing a system carefully crafted for 10 years, for another one that barely needed a couple of months to get better than the old one. And it can be made better than google's, today: https://www.deepl.com/translator

> "Driverless cars soon" - and flying ones, too, "in production in a few years" for a century now.

We had driverless car prototypes for a century? Wow. /s

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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by Piskvorrr on Monday November 06, 2017 @10:08AM (#15635947)
- Fair point. Conflating machine learning with strong AI (as evidenced on the machine translation example) still dubious.

- We had flying cars promised for a century, "any year now." Very similar status to "level 5 autonomous driving any moment now, don't look at the edge cases."

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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by DiThi on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:36PM (#15638786)
"Promised" but without any workable and remotely affordable prototype. It may happen soon, though: https://lilium.com/

I see both hand in hand. I don't think it will take off (metaphorically) without mandatory self driving AI near populations.

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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by Piskvorrr on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @06:41AM (#15642546)
"It may happen soon" is the mantra of vaporware, QED ;)
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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by DiThi on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @06:56AM (#15642625)
Yes, it is indeed. However I base my conclusions on existing prototypes and their cost.
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