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Re:Why Watson and Siri Are Not Real AI by _pmf_ on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:29AM (#7217059)
> machine translation

One look at the Play store and its machine translated descriptions shows how far we are from anything usable.

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Re:Why Watson and Siri Are Not Real AI by nodata on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:31AM (#7217065)
I think it shows how far we've come. Remember altavista's machine translation from babelfish?
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Re:Why Watson and Siri Are Not Real AI by frik on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:54AM (#7217144)
AltaVista/Yahoo Babelfish was based on SYSTRAN, as were earlier Google Translate versions! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSTRAN

SYSTRAN at that time was a rule-based machine translation and was comparable for european languages.

Where as Google's newer Translate and Microsoft Translator are statistical machine translators. (both trained with UN and EU documents that are available in several languages).

The future is probably a hybrid system (combination of rule-based and statistical) like the most recent SYSTRAN version.

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Re:Why Watson and Siri Are Not Real AI by mehwoot on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:54AM (#7217142)
Look at how far we've climbed this tree, we'll make it to the moon soon.
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