In 2017, a team at Google Translate came up with a new machine learning architecture: the transformer! Transformers are just ridiculously effective for machine learning. Google Translate itself swi…
  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Google translate was so good.

    You could write “hola como eatas translate” and it would would be there, with pronunciation and everything. and a quick copy button.

    now I get an AI explaining something I don’t care about, rarely translates, and it’s useless.

    AI isn’t just not adding anything of value, it is eating the things that actually had value.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Idk even before they did this I started using LLMs instead of Google Translate because it tended to be more accurate and could offer nuanced explanations instead of just one translation.