The Weakness In Data
Another guest post by Luigi who covers a variety of subjects here: AI, Big Data, NMT Hype, and more. Luigi attempts on a regular basis to clarify the conflation that seems rampant in the translation industry and makes my life easier by producing what I perceive as interesting content to keep this blog relevant and current. AI is a much-misunderstood term and thus I think it is worth a closer look to further reduce the conflation that surrounds it. The graphic below from a presentation I made on "Linguistic AI" on behalf of SDL, describes what I think a real AI should do. However, the reality is still quite far from the broad promise made by the use of the word intelligence, and most of what we see today is narrowly focused ML deployments that indeed do seem to perform some kind of cognitive function around carefully selected data. There is also a lot of confusion about what machine learning (ML) is and how it relates to AI. Thus I think this graphic below is also useful to