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Re:AI winter is well on its way by AstralStorm on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:11AM (#17186218)
Not true. The problem with Google captioning and translate is that unlike a weak speaker it makes critical mistakes completely misunderstanding the point.

A weak speaker may use a cognate, idiom borrowed from their native tongue or a similar wrong word more often. The translation app produces completely illegible word salad instead.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by nopinsight on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @06:42AM (#17186551)
I was talking exclusively about auto-captioning, which has >95% accuracy for reasonably clear audio. Automatic translation still has a long way to go, I agree.
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