#automatic translation

[littlemaple]

at Taidepappila in Kuhmahlati, a hidden treasure?

"Sisällä Taidepappilassa maskikavalkadi jatkuu. Myös vierailevien taiteilijoiden kesänäyttely on avoinna 31.8.2023 saakka. Kymmenen taiteilijan värikkäät teokset täyttävät seinät. Sieltä joukosta löytyy myös Katariina Sourin tekemä maalaus Käärijästä, joka pääsi esille valtakunnan mediassa Eurovision laulukilpailujen kohinassa."

Inside the Art Chapel, the masked cavalcade continues. The summer exhibition of visiting artists is also open until August 31, 2023. The colorful works of ten artists fill the walls. There is also a painting of Käärijä by Katariina Souri, which was featured in the national media amid the noise of the Eurovision song contests.

[nattaphum]

Mile and Apo’s interview for Thairath news (full here)

[vexwerewolf]

🤔🤔🤔

Hmmm

[amazingyoutubeautocaptions]

[squadxnine]

Happy Birthday to a steadfast leader and golden voice who’s always exploring, evolving and making the most out of life. Our tiger-toothed surfin’ cat dad, Wu Jiacheng! 😻🕺🏽

[squadxnine]

We are aware that automatic translation is an imperfect science. 😂

[marmota-b]

Another strike against AI/modern LLMs:

Facebook's automatic translation has become utterly useless in Czech.

It's never been great, it had been slowly inching towards somewhat better... and then suddenly recently it's become straight up gibberish with completely non-existant words that don't mean anything.

My assumption from what I've seen it doing is that they employed some sort of LLM that was supposed to be better at inflected languages by putting words together from their respective components rather than just linking whole words together.

But it's just a mathematical model that has no idea what those components mean, so it just. Throws them together randomly with no regard as to whether the resulting word actually exists in the target language. Or even whether the components do.

No, Facebook, Czech does not use "sz" (except to mean "PM"). I don't know what "nejszumilejší" is supposed to mean. I should not be having to translate your translation from a conlang. In Czech, I should not be looking at a word that uses two different spellings for the same consonant, either. (Polish & historical Czech sz = modern Czech š)

Oh, and it still fails at the inflected grammar, too. The Czech past tense 3rd person singular of "to sew" isn't "šilil". That's a past tense suffix too many.

[roykabanlit]

I love that the X Social Media now automatically translates Posts in other Languages into English on my Android App. It opens up a whole new Avenue of Discovery of how other Nationalities view the World