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  • Farwell to Martin Kays Translator's Amanuensis [Generative AI]

    From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to sci.physics on Mon Oct 20 12:50:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.physics

    Hi,

    Farwell to Martin Kays Translator's Amanuensis.
    The old stance for end-user was:

    "The goal of MT should not be the fully automatic
    high quality translation (FAHQT) that can replace
    human translators. Instead, MT should adopt less
    ambitious goals, e.g. more cost-effective human-
    machine interaction and aim at enhancement of
    human translation productivity."

    So we now have these spell checkers and grammer
    checkes all over the place. But notwithstanding
    the glimps of full MT translation in little

    browser buttons that could change the language
    a full website by automatically translating it.
    Something more fundamental happens right now.

    Through Generative AI, the copilot not only
    is a critic or full translator, he becomes
    your pair programmer.

    Bye
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