>>3616964You ever watch Star Trek? You know how everyone, even aliens, speak English? It's because they had "universal translators" on those little badges they wore.
In the real world, a device like that would literally need to read your mind in order to work.
Every translator out there just translates raw text without context. None of them are smart enough to infer context. That'd take a whole new generation of a generation of translation tech to get right.
It needs to hold a running database of what is even happening to understand things properly, which is at present impractical.
If you've ever fucked around with AI Dungeon you'd get a good idea of that, it doesn't have much in terms of memory, and it forgets things very quickly because of how intensive it is to process a large running memory.
Truth be told, we likely won't see something like this until computers aren't using silicon for processors. That's decades off. Minimum.
For the same reason the self-driving car meme is finally dying - it won't work because driving isn't a case of pure recognition, it involves heavy fucking reasoning to do properly. Google even said they'd need to program their cars to break the law to avoid crashing because that shit happens ALL the time on roads. Even by police.
You could say "well what about a huge server farm", apply that to everyone and you see why it is impractical. A few thousand people would already overload the biggest server farms of Amazon and Google.
