Zireael07
Zireael07 t1_itc3bfx wrote
Reply to comment by penguinmagnetwater in A new UN report explores how to make human civilization safe from destruction. There’s a way to make civilization extinction-proof. But it won’t be easy. by mossadnik
Point. But this article doesn't mention that AT ALL - not the risk, and not the measures we're (finally) taking.
Zireael07 t1_it8nwgo wrote
Reply to A new UN report explores how to make human civilization safe from destruction. There’s a way to make civilization extinction-proof. But it won’t be easy. by mossadnik
Bull#$@#%.
We're only one big asteroid hit away from extinction. This article doesn't even mention that. Yes, what it DID mention are also potential causes of extinction, but even if we solve those there's always an asteroid waiting...
Zireael07 t1_ja2mklb wrote
Reply to How far off are we from not needing to learn languages? by AmericanMonsterCock
As someone who majored in English (non-native) and is a native speaker of a Slavic language and knows several other languages to varying levels...
VERY far off. Currently available translation tools make mistakes in basic texts, even when translating to/from English which has the largest corpus (="body of linguistic data") of all languages. Trying to translate to or from any of the inflectional languages (like Estonian or many Slavic languages) will only result in laughs.
However, I see two niches for AI to step up. One is wordbooks/dictionaries for foreign scripts, esp. CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) - heck, I know electronic dictionaries already exist for Japanese AND are in use by native speakers since outside of joyo kanji, there are hundreds of rare/almost obsolete characters even a native speaker won't know. Second niche is some helper apps, e.g. annotating the text you are reading, or remembering how you translated this phrase (NOT word!).