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sgcyesterday at 1:48 PM1 replyview on HN

I understand, but the improvement is actually more than that. It is not directly programming, but look at this page [1] for example. I spent years handcrafting parallel texts of English and Greek and had managed to put just under 400 books online. With AI, I managed to translate and put in parallel 1500 more books very quickly. At least 2/3 of those have never been translated into English, ever. That means I have done what the entire history of English-speaking scholars has never managed to do. And the quality is good enough that I have already had publishers contacting me to use the translations. There are a couple other areas where I am getting similar speed ups, but of course this is not the norm.

[1] https://catholiclibrary.org/library/browse/


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demorroyesterday at 2:07 PM

... you know what. Whilst I suspect the quality of these translations is probably not great. Fair play this is a valid example.

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