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0 pointsbrucephillips8y ago0 comments

Whether progress is incremental is an ill defined question. I don't consider "super human translation" to be incremental. The key point here is that deep learning has produced significant results. I'm not sure why you care to argue semantics.

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comstock8y ago

Well, I’m interested in understanding how valuable deep learning is and if lives up to the hype.

Better translation of European languages (which wasn’t a totally unsolved problem anyway) doesn’t seem to be something that really lives up to the hype.

Particularly as the article cited doesn’t seem to back up its statements very well.

So... anything else?

brucephillipsOP8y ago

If super human translation doesn't impress you, what will?

comstock8y ago

The article doesn’t make that statement. The article doesn’t provide data to support any statements (it’s a pop science piece).

The original blog:

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...

Is better suggests deep learning resulted in maybe 10% improvement. Isn’t as good as human in all cases.

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comstock8y ago

Well, I’m interested in understanding how valuable deep learning is and if lives up to the hype.

Better translation of European languages (which wasn’t a totally unsolved problem anyway) doesn’t seem to be something that really lives up to the hype.

Particularly as the article cited doesn’t seem to back up its statements very well.

So... anything else?

brucephillipsOP8y ago

If super human translation doesn't impress you, what will?

comstock8y ago

The article doesn’t make that statement. The article doesn’t provide data to support any statements (it’s a pop science piece).

The original blog:

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...

Is better suggests deep learning resulted in maybe 10% improvement. Isn’t as good as human in all cases.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse