Sabine Cretella wrote:
Never ever a machine will be able to translate
correctly - not now,
not tomorrow, not in 100 years - it's a dream many have - sorry, I
must destroy it.
A pedantic point, but this is assuming that machines are not capable
of human-level intelligence. Many in the AI community would beg to
differ. =]
(Although whether it'll be 10, 20, 50, 100, or 500 years before an
artificial intelligence can learn things like languages with the same
or better aptitude as humans is a matter of debate.)
I would call Sabine's comment realistic rather than pedantic. I realize
that technophiles dream of these artificial solutions, but the best they
can realistically hope for is competent interpretation of technical
material. When it comes to metaphor technophiles are playing in the
right field of dreams. (I wonder how a machine would translate that into
the language of people who know nothing about baseball.)
Ec