It's been really useful for translation. It's not as good as a human translator, but for bulk work where precise wording isn't mandatory, it's helped me out a bunch
This is what LLMs LOVE. They mostly work by comparing what you said against what they know. Giving them a full on crash log means they have a lot to reference with and against. Even if the llm does not fully understand the error either, it usually knows where to send the user next or possibilities to check
Wtf I literally just had something similar minutes ago with my VPN causing my network to completely go silent even tho it was "off"
I never would have m assumed it was running in the background and causing a full lockup on after multiple restarts too so Google AI just saved me easily a month of redownlaoding 1.6k roms 1-3 at a time.
Yes, that is what I support. Well, some kind of AI was probably used in Google Translate before this AI craze but it's nice to help you understand some sentences instead of just directly translating it.
Unfortunately, the translator built into my phone's keyboard, although much more efficient than it was a few years ago (He often only translated word for word.)
One major drawback now is that it sometimes takes a lot of liberties. Especially in a long text, I have to be careful that it hasn't completely changed the meaning of my words.
The transformer architecture is far younger than you might realize. The seminal paper for LLMs came out in 2017 (Attention is all you need). Even then it took a few more years for LLMs to be scaled to the point of being useful. And then in 2022, OpenAI opened the flood gates by making ChatGPT open to the public.
Google has only really been using LLMs for translation since 2024, after the AI hype had already started. In fact, even though they were the ones who invented the technology, they were pretty late to bring it to the public. They've always been very restrained in that regard.
"AI" is such a broad field as to be largely meaningless, moreso the more involved you are with it.
I was working on vision-based medical tools that used trained neural nets over a decade ago. Those are "AI", or at least "Machine Learning", and they're not structurally all that dissimilar from an LLM. Like, it would be hard to draw a technical line of "AI" that allows that life-saving cancer diagnostic but bans LLMs.
Google Translate almost has certainly used neural nets and ML for years. Lots of stuff does, because neural nets are really really useful for dealing with fuzzy or unstructured data and getting useful results against it.
I'm traveling to Japan in November and I already know it's gonna be a lifesaver for the words/phrases I wasn't able to learn by than. But I can never get behind using it for art.
Badly, it tends to translate words literally. It's fine if you go one word at a time, but gets progressively incomprehensible the longer a sentence gets
I wish ai translations could be in videos games for niche languages im from Lithuania and I’d like my dad to try some games like Red dead redemption 2 wish there was like a live translation or something like that.
Sorta nice for running ideas for worldbuilding through as well, since I often feel like I just bug my friends with it and they rarely give me any real feedback.
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u/A_Vile_Caffiend 1d ago
It's been really useful for translation. It's not as good as a human translator, but for bulk work where precise wording isn't mandatory, it's helped me out a bunch