> > A.I. is no closer than it was 20 or 30 or 40 years ago. > Of one thing I am certain, someday computers will become more intelligent than any human who ever lived using any measure of intelligence you care to name. And I am even more certain that we are 20 years closer to that day than we were 20 years ago.
> But what is new and big is Big Data. But Big Data does not involve > theories of A.I. nor efforts. it's about taking very large sets of paired > data and converging by some basic rule to a single thing. This is how > translation services work. > Well... Big Data computers are artificial and good translation requires intelligence, so why in the world isn't that AI. > Big Data does not involve theories of A.I > I think it very unlikely that the secret to intelligence is some grand equation you could put on a teashirt, it's probably 1001 little hacks and kludges that all add up to something big. > It's very large sets of translations of sentences, and sentence > components, simply rehashed for best fit > Simply? Is convoluted better than simple? Are you saying that if we can explain how it works then it can't be intelligent? > It actually works fairly adequately for most translation needs. Which > would be great, except this: The Big Data system is not independent at any > point. Every day there needs to be a huge scrape of the translations > performed by human translators. > And human beings move from being mediocre translators to being very good translators by observing how great translators do it. > Human translation professions are in a state of freefall. There used to > be a career structure with rising income and security and status. Now there > isn't. > Translation certainly won't be the last profession where machines become better at there job than any human; and I predict that the next time it happens somebody will try to find a excuse for it just like you did and say "Yes a machine is a better poet or surgeon or joke writer or physicists than I am but it doesn't really count because (insert lame excuse here)". John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
