Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > 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
On what list were you discussing this? I'd like to read the discussion. Jeremy. -- | Jeremy Smith BSc (Hons) _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
