😂
Sorry for my late reaction. I'm terrible at checking my BlueSky...

Update: only 2 of the team escaped... Oopsy 😬

It definitely is...

You'd have thought they'd have weighed those sorts of things up in the report... but instead they focused on how often translators boil kettles and their office block costs, while deciding it was too difficult to factor in the energy usage of AI data centres.

I can imagine someone sitting in a library, talking to their laptop, with the instructions being picked up by the laptop of whoever is sat next to them, and then being asked to be quiet by the librarian. Definitely not workable in the real world

😆 yeah that sounds about right...!

😂 exactly!

Yeah, it's an interesting development...
Apologies for the late response - I forgot to drop into BSky

How would that even work in an open-plan office? Or a coffee shop coworking space. Nobody would be able to concentrate and everyone would know exactly what you were typing.
I don't think they've thought this through very well

Report is here, btw. Because: character count: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/689d9d...

😂 yeah it was a bit like that for me... I managed to get just shy of the summit, but then had to abseil down quickly to stay alive. The second time, I wasn't so lucky 😂

Interesting... I'd just seen a map recently that compared second language ability across Europe and Germany scored reasonably highly on that. Scandinavia was obviously top, and then France/Italy/Southern Europe lagging a long way behind. UK was low (as expected)

Agreed, and actually, Germany has quite a high rate of English literacy compared with other countries... The question is: why would someone spend their money on a game if the designers can't be bothered to cater for them? I've read that translations/dubbing etc can be 50% of a film's sales, for e.g.

👏 [clap emoji.] Translators: "The machines are churning out junk!!"
Tech bros: "Stop whining about your jobs! This machine translation looks absolutely perfect!"