This is a minor quibble, but regarding “translation,” professional services firms have been using a version of AI (CAT tools: computer-assisted translation) for nigh on twenty years now. The “AI revolution” I think has been happening more slowly and consistently than most people think, and this discourse around AI is positing a sharp demarcation that I don’t think really exists.
This is a minor quibble, but regarding “translation,” professional services firms have been using a version of AI (CAT tools: computer-assisted translation) for nigh on twenty years now. The “AI revolution” I think has been happening more slowly and consistently than most people think, and this discourse around AI is positing a sharp demarcation that I don’t think really exists.
I was worried that somebody would notice that! Yeah, I'm not great on the distinctions between LLMs, AI, text-predict, neural machine translation, etc. I'm using "AI" as kind of a catch-all for these models that exhibit plasticity. The language translation functions seem to be doing that. The Chats do as well. And I agree: the AI revolution has been happening longer than we realize. I think people assumed that text predict was more of a controlled input and didn't realize the power inherent in it.
Oh I think your larger gist is correct! It’s just that the case with so many “invasive” technologies is that — from a consumer/user standpoint — they’ve already arrived. How many years have we been subjected to talking to proto-AI customer service bots? And that’s one reason I’m super-bearish on AI. If it was going to make our lives hella more convenient, the dumb-AI could have actually done so much for us already.
This is a minor quibble, but regarding “translation,” professional services firms have been using a version of AI (CAT tools: computer-assisted translation) for nigh on twenty years now. The “AI revolution” I think has been happening more slowly and consistently than most people think, and this discourse around AI is positing a sharp demarcation that I don’t think really exists.
I was worried that somebody would notice that! Yeah, I'm not great on the distinctions between LLMs, AI, text-predict, neural machine translation, etc. I'm using "AI" as kind of a catch-all for these models that exhibit plasticity. The language translation functions seem to be doing that. The Chats do as well. And I agree: the AI revolution has been happening longer than we realize. I think people assumed that text predict was more of a controlled input and didn't realize the power inherent in it.
Oh I think your larger gist is correct! It’s just that the case with so many “invasive” technologies is that — from a consumer/user standpoint — they’ve already arrived. How many years have we been subjected to talking to proto-AI customer service bots? And that’s one reason I’m super-bearish on AI. If it was going to make our lives hella more convenient, the dumb-AI could have actually done so much for us already.