We were just discussing the future of translators with all those Google translate etc and one fellow translator wrote something that sounded very much like what Peter said during the IT Conversations interview, so I could not hesitate to reply:
>> For thirty years IT has been galloping in exactly the wrong >> direction it needs to if it wants to develop AI or MT. They need to >> invent robots that dream and write poetry and get drunk and >> distracted. You need a dash of all those things to translate. The >> current IT industry has the wrong goals, the wrong benchmarks, the >> wrong philosophies and the wrong people to achieve that. The guy >> who wrote that article was probably one of them. Pay it no heed. >> We're safe. >> > > Chris, thank you for this very refreshing view :) > > Bordering on the off-topic (on the wrong side) is a podcast interview > of Peter Seibel, author of Practical Common Lisp, acclaimed as one of > the best technical book of the year. He was on IT conversations a few > days ago and is exactly talking about what you wrote, with a lot of > other very lipsy things http://www.itconversations.com/shows/ > detail1044.html. Jean-Christophe _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
