Meta's AI translation breaks 200 language barrier

Meta's quest to translate underserved languages is marking its first victory with the open source release of a language model able to decipher 202 languages. Named after Meta's No Language Left Behind initiative and dubbed NLLB-200, the model is the first able to translate so many languages, according to its makers, all with …

[amanfromMars 1]

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Meta said it's also providing $200,000 in grants to nonprofits willing to research real-world applications for NLLB-200.

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Although not absolutely essential to be able to communicate in any language, it certainly would not do one harm to be so helpful.

[Pete 2]

Get the basics right first

> improve translation for languages overlooked by similar projects.

Yet it still has no provision for distinguishing "you" between singular and plural when translating from English into a language that uses different words for those two cases

you (sing) are / you (pl) are: du bist / ihr seid, in german, for example (also fails for formal use of the pronoun)

[Martin 26]

Re: Get the basics right first

Thou art is translated as 'du bist', works for me. Ye think gives 'ihr denkt'. It's not perfect but they have thought about it.

[WhereAmI?]

Re: Get the basics right first

And then there's the languages that have no gender pronouns (such as Filipino). You just get used to being called he and she indiscriminately.

[JassMan]

Re: Get the basics right first

And then there's the languages that have no gender pronouns (such as Filipino). You just get used to being called he and she indiscriminately.

Surely that's sex discrimination against the LGBT+ community. It should translate everything as 'they'.

[nijam]

Re: Get the basics right first

> It should translate everything as 'they'.

No, "they" is a plural.

I self-identify as a single individual and would take offence at the suggestion that I am a multiplicity. Unlike the biblical case, I am NOT legion.