I think you overestimate human translators. There is a lot of very poor quality human-translated text out there. English translated from Chinese is famous for this.

There will never be enough expert-level human translators, and they tend to be very expensive. Machine translation has raised the floor.

> I think you overestimate human translators. There is a lot of very poor quality human-translated text out there.

This.

There was even a big controversy recently with one of the games on Steam where human translators just completely botched and vandalized the translation, mistranslating huge chunks of it and injecting their own personal politics which are not present in the original text (only English was affected; other languages were translated fine apparently): https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2914150/view/5028562...

If you'd get the AI to translate it, even without any editing, it would have done much better job. Just because something's done by a human it doesn't automatically make it good; you still need competent people at the helm, and recent machine translation advances certainly raise the floor on that.

I don’t agree that machine translation has raised the floor, because even LLM-based translation can get pretty bad when it isn’t provided with the necessary context. And the average quality level I’m encountering has dropped since machine translation became mainstream. Poor translations have become the norm, which wasn’t the case 20 years ago, despite the occasional “all your base are belong to us”.

I agree, I think people are being far too cynical.

It's just like AI, people discount the positives and magnify the negatives.

<--- Who are these people. It's like they are from a different planet.

This is the laziest possible implementation of smart glasses.

What I want is an overlay that gives you useful information about the world. Like you're looking at a store shelf and it tells you if the price is low or high compared to other stores in the area. Or you're fixing your car and it shows the steps you need to execute.

A camera recording is neither smart nor useful IMO.

> A camera recording is neither smart nor useful IMO.

It's very useful for big brother Zuckerberg though.

You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. It is completely legal to film someone on the street.

This is important for other reasons, as it is the same law that allows you to film cops.

In America. That is not true for all other countries.

And in even more countries it is legal to film, but it's not legal to send that footage back to Meta's servers for use in LLM training.

We’re talking about Europe. The context of this entire article is Europe.

This seems like a US-centric view, because "it is NOT completely legal to film someone on the street" in the european country I live.

I love how Europeans claim they aren't one country but then refuse to specify where they're from.

Anyway that sounds like a very specific view only in your country since it's completely fine in the North American country in which I live.

With a bit of clicking around you could easily find out to which country I'm referring to. I know neighboring countries have similar rulings, so how does that really change anything?

GP made some US-centric statements in, absolute form, in a thread about initiatives from the European legislature... make it make sense, please. As EU citizen I don't yearn for inspiration from the US legal system when it comes to matters of privacy. The rights to privacy of any individual shouldn't be waved aside just because they happen to be situated in public space.

He did not said it is true in every single EU country. He said it is false in his one.

He also said it is US-centric view. Which it is. Americans tend to think all the other countries are just little worst America or enemies. And get real angry when EU countries dont just project simplified American politics, but have their own equally complex one.

Nothing in the original post mentioned the US.

Germans all think this way. What a German-centric view. Germans tend to think anything they don't do is just America-centric. And get real angry when other countries dont just have the same German views, but have ones that may be closer to America.

What you have a reasonable expectation of is decided by society, not some unmoving law of physics.

A country could very easily decide you do have the right to go outside without creeps recording you with spy glasses.

Or it could also decide that you can add a digital eye to your existing two bio eyes without being called a creep and thrown in jail or issued a fine for wanting to remember something or getting assisted with something.

law != ethics

"remember, we have a legal system, not a justice system"

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."

In some jurisdictions, it depends. You may film “a street”, and people go into and out of the frame all the time, and it’s okay. But if you take a random passerby and make them the focus of your recording, you may run into problems.

As someone already said, I am not talking about legality, but about ethics.

Doctors salaries should be reduced, as should nurses and dentists. We pay them nearly twice as much in the US as in countries with socialized medicine.

As part of a policy position, I'm guessing that, "Doctors and nurses make too much money" ain't exactly a slam dunk.

Is she really underpaid? The average pediatric critical care physician in the US makes $262K-$440K a year according to Glassdoor.

This is twice what the same role pays in most European countries. Unless she is well below that range for some reason, she is likely overpaid.

Everybody in healthcare, from the nurses to the hospital CEOs, makes far far more in the US than they would in a country with socialized medicine.

That was really not meant to be the focus of my comment, but that range definitely seems high, from all those that I know in the field. You have to also factor in the significant amount of debt they incur over the 14 years it takes to get through undergrad, medical school, residency training and then subspecialty fellowship training. Adult ICU doctors make twice as much as pediatric ICU doctors, that was really the thought behind the comment on being underpaid. That, and she works difficult hours (long shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, on-call, etc.) and the emotional toll of the work can't be understated.

That's 404media for you. They are anti-tech-industry activists who exist to get people riled up against tech companies.

Yeah, this is only a joke because it doesn't work very well at the moment. On-the-fly code generation is the logical conclusion of coding models.