In 2025, most everyone in the world can translate foreign languages at the press of a button. I dislike Gwern since he’s a bigot, but I like his article, “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s.”
Google translate isn’t much better than it was in 2010, but LLMs do a much better job. Admittedly, Google Translate is what most people use. It works well enough though.
In 2025, most everyone in the world can translate foreign languages at the press of a button. I dislike Gwern since he’s a bigot, but I like his article, “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s.”
We could do that in 2010, which is about where it stagnated.
Google translate isn’t much better than it was in 2010, but LLMs do a much better job. Admittedly, Google Translate is what most people use. It works well enough though.
Yeah. Last tine we gor any positive modal shift was smart phones. That was 17 years ago.
A lot of people mark that as the downfall of the internet.
The phones weren’t the problem.
Well, they fucked uo design a lot, but tgey didn’t ruin everything.