logoalt Hacker News

MisterTealast Thursday at 11:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Do you ever need a website you're visiting translated?

Yes. Firefox and Chrome already offer this.

> Have you ever not understood a term or phrase on a website and had to go to wikipedia/urbandictionary/google to explain it?

Yeah. And?

> Have you ever wanted to do a 'fuzzy search' of a 300 page document (where you don't know the exact string of text to ctrl-f, but want to see where they talk about a particular topic)?

No because I ctrl-f for that topic/key words and find the text.

These are incredibly poor AI sells...


Replies

sigmarlast Thursday at 11:07 PM

>Yes. Firefox and Chrome already offer this.

yes, both use machine learning methods to translate pages. You're already using AI and don't realize it.

show 6 replies
cons0leyesterday at 1:56 PM

"See but what if instead of ctrl+F, we fired up a nvdia gpu in a data center instead .... "

I'll pass. Also for people that already know another language, the auto translate is annoying, inaccurate, and strips all of the humanity out of the writing.