RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@dougmerritt/116206890107131056

The fundamental fallacy is that a translator translates words. They do not. Translation translates meaning.

Which computers not only don't understand - we have no idea how to make them even if we had magical technology, because we don't know how humans do this in the first place.

I keep saying: Intelligence is not an engineering problem.

#ai #llm #knowledge #translation #language

@jwcph
Quite so!

I'm a technology enthusiast, so I might say something more optimistic -- but you're not wrong!

Yet the machine translation people act like they've never heard these things from past and current subject area experts.