Current Events > Google translate spitting out sinister religious prophecies

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Type the word dog into Google Translate 19 times, request that the nonsensical message be flipped from Maori into English, and out pops what appears to be a garbled religious prophecy.

Doomsday Clock is three minutes at twelve, it reads. We are experiencing characters and a dramatic developments in the world, which indicate that we are increasingly approaching the end times and Jesus' return.

In Somali, for instance, strings of the word ag translate into missives about the sons of Gershon, the name of the LORD, and references to Biblical terminology like cubits and Deuteronomy.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
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I just checked... And lol
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I read a pretty cool related article a few days ago

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/

I think it would be neat if machine translation could also present a confidence rating %, because while these are very obviously wrong the same sort of thing can easily happen in a less apparent manner and the person translating presumably won't be able to tell (since if they could read it to tell in the first place they wouldn't need the translation)
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That's fucking awesome
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context. reminds me of something simple, like people on here misunderstanding a sarcastic comment, that can be very important.
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kirbymuncher posted...

I read a pretty cool related article a few days ago

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/

I think it would be neat if machine translation could also present a confidence rating %, because while these are very obviously wrong the same sort of thing can easily happen in a less apparent manner and the person translating presumably won't be able to tell (since if they could read it to tell in the first place they wouldn't need the translation)

ahh that's cool. I remember when a bunch of those deep dream pics surfaced it was soo creepy.
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Tag for later
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I hope this is the work of an AI and not just some bullshit human at Google.
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bump
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SpiralDrift posted...

I hope this is the work of an AI and not just some bullshit human at Google.

It's an AI they keep around that failed the Turing Test...

...on purpose.
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eggcorn posted...

Type the word dog into Google Translate 19 times, request that the nonsensical message be flipped from Maori into English, and out pops what appears to be a garbled religious prophecy.

Doomsday Clock is three minutes at twelve, it reads. We are experiencing characters and a dramatic developments in the world, which indicate that we are increasingly approaching the end times and Jesus' return.

In Somali, for instance, strings of the word ag translate into missives about the sons of Gershon, the name of the LORD, and references to Biblical terminology like cubits and Deuteronomy.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies

Hey didn't the Facebook AI invent it's own language where it said "the" like 17 times in a row?


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Spoilers: you can Google bomb their translation service by suggesting "corrections."
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Im scared
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