Poll: What type of AI tools are you familar with and use regularly? (Examples in brackets) Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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I used ChatGPT once or twice and it was more than enough! I have no interest whatsoever in AI and anyway a growing number of my clients have now expressly forbidden the use of any AI software…
| | | | Ana Vozone 
Local time: 18:49
Member (2010)
English to Portuguese
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| I now have a better idea about AI tools | Mar 11 |
after the Proz webinar a few days ago.
I have no intention to use AI, and have not used it before.
At the moment, I feel using AI would equate to digging my own grave... intelectually, and also more "physically", in terms of my connection to the real world (nature included).
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 19:49
Member (2009)
English to German
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Only 14.3% seem to use machine translation tools. Adding Other/some (9.2%) and All (7.6%) we get around 32%, which also looks rather low.
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Liena Vijupe
Latvia
Local time: 20:49
Member (2014)
French to Latvian
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I was trying to check the eTranslation tool on the EC website today. When I clicked on "Translate" it gave me the following message: "The text is being translated, please wait". As if somebody was sitting at the other end, typing fast... While I was waiting, I managed to translate an entire paragraph myself and, returning to the website, found a message that the service was not available. I guess all monkeys were busy.
| | | | | Never even looked at AI | Mar 11 |
And I don't think I ever will
| | | | | ambiguity in the meaning of "use" | Mar 12 |
Zea_Mays wrote:
Only 14.3% seem to use machine translation tools. Adding Other/some (9.2%) and All (7.6%) we get around 32%, which also looks rather low.
Hmmm, I suppose it means only few people use machine translation actively or at their own initiative.
If I regularly receive machine translations (already produced by my client) for post-editing, would that count as "using" MT tools regularly in the intended sense here? My interpretation is that in these cases, my client is the one who has "used" MT, while I am just processing his output.
As for my own use of AI, I tried to use Bing once recently for a search and Bing then somehow ended up connecting me with its own AI chatbot. It was the dumbest and most useless conversation I've had. Wasted my time and didn't help me a bit. In general, my overall feeling is that there is a lot of political steering behind the algorithms: They are specifically training the AIs to give the sorts of responses that the tech companies (Google, Microsoft, etc.) consider politically correct - which makes them essentially useless and unreliable.
| | | | Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 19:49
Member (2020)
English to German
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Zea_Mays wrote:
Only 14.3% seem to use machine translation tools. Adding Other/some (9.2%) and All (7.6%) we get around 32%, which also looks rather low.
I guess this only reflects the reality that most translators are aware of the questionable (at best) quality of AI and machine translations and steer clear of them. Personally, I do use DeepL to support me with certain sentences (especially for Legalese), but it wouldn't occur to me to "pre-DeepL" an entire job and post-edit the output, since that would end up taking me more time than simply translating the job myself.
As for the question as such, I selected "None", but I guess this depends on one's personal interpretation of what does and doesn't constitute AI. I have actually switched from Google to Bing as my primary search engine ever since Google only shows the same 5-10 results for each query. As opposed to one of the previous responders here, I have never been redirected to Bing's chatbot and I would simply refuse to use it. Chatbots are utterly useless in my experience. Other than that, as an avid video gamer, I have to contend with "AI opponents" more often than not, though those have little to do with actual AI in 99.9999% of all cases.
[Edited at 2024-03-12 06:00 GMT]
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Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 19:49
Member (2009)
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Alex Lichanow wrote:
I do use DeepL to support me with certain sentences
That's why I selected "Neural MT" (DeepL like Reverso and other tools are AI based). Perhaps not all know that those tools are AI powered. My experience with DeepL is that it is the best MT tool currently around for my main language pair (being the tool developed by a German company this is no surprise), way better than any of the AI chatbots, which are not specifically build for translation.
These days, many people say "AI" and mean LLMs/generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, while AI is also behind many other tools. And the real big thing behind AI is PROBABILITY.
Thomas Johansson wrote:
In general, my overall feeling is that there is a lot of political steering behind the algorithms: They are specifically training the AIs to give the sorts of responses that the tech companies (Google, Microsoft, etc.) consider politically correct - which makes them essentially useless and unreliable.
This is a very interesting and important aspect, which is not given much weight in the public debate.
And then there is the fascinating phenomenon of AI chatbots getting dumber and dumber over time...
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Thomas Johansson wrote:
In general, my overall feeling is that there is a lot of political steering behind the algorithms: They are specifically training the AIs to give the sorts of responses that the tech companies (Google, Microsoft, etc.) consider politically correct - which makes them essentially useless and unreliable.
How does being politically correct make them useless and unreliable? Political correctness may have its shortcomings but it's fundamentally about being kind and inclusive.
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 19:49
Member (2009)
English to German
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| who's shaping public opinion? | Mar 13 |
Christopher Schröder wrote:
How does being politically correct make them useless and unreliable? Political correctness may have its shortcomings but it's fundamentally about being kind and inclusive.
I think the emphasis here is on
what tech companies consider politically correct
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