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Why I do not believe stories about AI

Why I do not believe stories about AI: Amazon translate gets German very, very wrong

We all know that AI is meant to be taking over the world and doing amazing things, things you would never dream of: finding facts, discovering our political weak-spots, and (most important) doing all those things that we used to think only people could do, like play chess, answer telephones, or – today’s subject – translation.

Ah, machine translation: the golden prize, so often promised us by the…

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On the Golden Globes: fashionable demagoguery

We have seen a large amount of startlingly fawning coverage of last night’s Golden Globes ceremony.  How everyone wearing black made a forceful political statement, how Hollywood showed how much in advance of Washington it is, how Oprah ought to be President and how the world had been saved and we could now all live happily ever after and have jam for tea.

The Washington Post, whose mottos is…

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