An actual worthwhile investment.

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[–] 62 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Here, just let me put this fish in your ear.

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  • [+] 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
    [–] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Impossible, as the structure of language is not the same so you will always have lag or you need context to get the right meaning of a word. If someone is going to a ball, are they going to a dance, or getting a toy off the ground?

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Anyone who knows at least two languages can tell you that you need to listen to the whole sentence before you can start translating. Usually there’s something in the end that changes everything. In many cases, the word order is more or less reversed, so you have to start translating from the end.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 months ago (6 children)
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    chat the entered japanese

    I felt it was imminent. My bro married a beautiful girl from japan, and she's so patient; but, even being marginally fluent in Thai and Mandarin as well as his French and English experience - thus, super plastic for languages - Japanese is still so hard. It seems to be THE poster-child for inscrutably challenging second-languages!

    (Hmm. He needs to watch more anime maybe?)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Seems like a lot of asian languages follow this structure, a bunch of Indian languages are like this as well

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    About 45% of all world's languages are like this, it's the most common order! English (and some other European languages) are the weird ones out!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    Japanese as context the chat as destination entered*

    If you're translating 日本語はチャットに入りました。

    EDIT Mine would even be “Japanese as context the chat as destination entered (conjugated to polite)”…

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    ai investment sould go to public education so we can all learn whatever language we like

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Right?

    It drives me nuts that they want to spend trillions of dollars on technology to write for people instead of teaching people how to write.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn't this already exist?

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I still think we should agree on a universal sign language and then have every country teach it in school for all years of public school.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I agree but the esperantists will be annoyed by us choosing a different language

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    Ne, mi ankaŭ ne volis lerni esperanton.

    I joke, it was fun, esperantists are good people. I did it to 'cheat' at being bi-lingual, I don't think that was the best motivation. Toki pana would've been easier.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    That would be not very accessible for people with sight or hand mobility issues. We'd need a spoken form of it, too.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We will never be able to have a perfect international language but considering all of the difficulties involved in creating an international that people around the world could speak, sign language that “only” alienates a small percentage of the population would be a huge improvement over the current system

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  • https://support.apple.com/en-us/123185

    Apple already has this, and I think google or Samsung also have something similar.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Obligatoric Babelfish reference:

    Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Let’s get ai into the right hands first and make it sustainable for this planet.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The issue would be the languages having different syntaxes (syntaces?).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I dont know how well LLMs work translating chinese to english, but for the uses i give it: spanish, french, german and english, i dont see any issues. I did have some issues translating russian to english though... the stupid bot decided that i invented a modal verb

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Already exists.

    AIへの投資は、ライブ音声翻訳に充てるべきだ。世界中の誰もが、イヤホンひとつで、遅延なく、自分の母国語を使って誰とでも会話できるようになれば、人類にとって画期的なこととなるだろう。

    まさに価値ある投資だ。

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