Key idea: An Italian company has unveiled a novel method of measuring AI progress: analyzing improvements in machine translation.
Original author and publication date: Thomas Macaulay (The Next Web)- January 18, 2023
Futurizonte Editor’s Note: Interesting idea: the closer AI is to know how to properly translate, the closer we are to the singularity.
From the article:
Translated, a provider of translation services, used the approach to predict when we will achieve singularity, a vague concept often defined as the point where machines become smarter than humans.
The Rome-based business sets this milestone at the moment when AI provides “a perfect translation.” According to the new research, this arrives when machine translation (MT) is better than top human translations.
Translated, a provider of translation services, used the approach to predict when we will achieve singularity, a vague concept often defined as the point where machines become smarter than humans.
The Rome-based business sets this milestone at the moment when AI provides “a perfect translation.” According to the new research, this arrives when machine translation (MT) is better than top human translations.
At the current rate, the time will hit 1 second in around five years. At that point, MT would provide the epochal “perfect translation.” In practical terms, it will then be more convenient to edit a machine’s translations than a top professional’s.
According to Trombetti, any task involving communication, understanding, listening, and sharing knowledge will become multilingual with minimal investment.
“The exact date of when we will reach the singularity point may vary, but the trend is clear: it is really close,” he says.
