> but he has chosen two passages where gender is critical, and moved them between languages where gender is expressed in very different ways.
So what, if the program can't handle these simple sentences, it can't claim to be a translation program. The machine 'translation' throws away the entire point of the sentence.
Why don't we just evolve towards the machines and start speaking to each other in JSON (We should come up with a more efficient way to pronounce '}' as soon as possible!)
Most of the AI revolution is just parlour tricks and marketing puffery. Fourth grade children could translate the French sentence better.
So what, if the program can't handle these simple sentences, it can't claim to be a translation program. The machine 'translation' throws away the entire point of the sentence.
Why don't we just evolve towards the machines and start speaking to each other in JSON (We should come up with a more efficient way to pronounce '}' as soon as possible!)
Most of the AI revolution is just parlour tricks and marketing puffery. Fourth grade children could translate the French sentence better.