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Comment on Google mistranslates the word because it uses English as a medium(probs).

The middle language is not a spoken language. It’s AI created an intermediary language to translate between all languages. It’s not written/spoken, it’s done on weights. It’s referred to as an ‘interlingua’

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balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
In my experience, with the amount of mistakes similar to the one in the OP, I strongly suspect that language is somehow unbelievably close (semantically) to English then.

I decided to quickly experiment with two languages I somewhat know, and got 3/3 incorrect translations consistent with English as intermediary:

Russian ширинка (fly, meaning “zipper on your trousers”) -> Georgian ფრენა (to fly, as in “flight”) - completely incorrect translation, consistent with English as intermediary

Russian парковаться (to park, as in “park your car”) -> Georgian პარკი (park, meaning “green space with trees”) - completely incorrect translation, consistent with English as intermediary

Russia лежать (to lie, as in “lie on your back”) -> Georgian ტყუილი (lie, as meaning “untruth”) - completely incorrect translation, consistent with English as intermediary

It makes exactly the same mistakes if you translate from Russian to Spanish and French too.
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dreugeworst@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
you’d think they would use embeddings nowadays instead, with all the llm hype going on

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moonshine69@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Very old article, they are absolutely just using llms nowdays

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