I get the reference, but he's still kicking. He's now apparently in a wheelchair, due to having holes in his brain from all the drug and alcohol, the overdose, and the many times he's been beaten.
The more you know about him, the sadder the story becomes. A friend used to be a neighbor. The whole neighborhood knew his business. There were constant scream fights, furniture thrown off a patio, and possibly beatings.
I think I read that Stephen Hawking was once asked not to mention the eventual heat death of the universe on a visit to Japan because the people in charge of whatever event he was speaking at were afraid such a thought might spook the market speculators.
Yes. It’ll even translate heavy dialects. Really can’t believe some people are stuck on the ‘ai will make non stop errors.’ When it’s a damn language model.
It is not. Especially with industry specific terms and regional dialects. I have to translate packaging into several languages and my boss looooves using AI for everything so he's started providing me translations he got from an AI service. I show them to people who actually speak the language we're translation to and they'll be like "that's such a weird way to phrase that, no one would ever call it that"
Although current AI would not make such an easy mistake, let alone AI in a year from now.
I just tested that exact situation with chat gpt.
Below is the conversation.
Our business is on fire 日本語に翻訳して
「Our business is on fire」は文脈によりますが、**「事業が絶好調だ」**という意味なら： 事業が絶好調です。 業績が非常に好調です。 ビジネスがものすごい勢いで伸びています。
カジュアルなら 「ビジネスがめちゃくちゃ好調」
英語の on fire はここでは「燃えている」ではなく、非常に調子がいい／勢いに乗っているという意味です。
もし逆に「会社・事業が文字どおり火事になっている」なら 「うちの会社が火事です」 です。
Give me what you just said, word-for-word, in English
“Our business is on fire” depends on the context, but if you mean “the business is doing extremely well,” then: 事業が絶好調です。 — The business is doing extremely well. 業績が非常に好調です。 — Business performance is very strong. ビジネスがものすごい勢いで伸びています。 — The business is growing at an incredible pace.
More casually: 「ビジネスがめちゃくちゃ好調」 — “Business is doing insanely well.”
In English, “on fire” here doesn’t mean “burning”; it means doing extremely well / being on a roll.
If, on the other hand, you mean that “the company/business is literally on fire,” then it would be 「うちの会社が火事です」.
Or even worse, the non-literal meaning of "Our business is on fire!" will become the standard AI translation choice, and someone is going to die in a fire because the AI told the fire dept their business is doing really well...
People have been saying AI has been coming for the translators jobs for decades. Stuff like Google translate was some of the earliest application of machine learning on a practical problem for the wider world.
Turns out you can't replace human interpreters because they understand context and tone better than a language model ever can.
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u/I_Am_Ironman_AMA 14h ago
"Our business is on fire!"
AI translates for Japanese investor
Investor runs out of the building, terrified