Reddit: machine translation has been quietly solved and nobody is talking about it
LostBetsRed · reddit · 2026-10-07
- A Reddit post argues that amid the AI hype, we've glossed over machine translation — a decades-old problem — being essentially solved
- The arc: early MT was unusable, then let you grasp the original intent, and now any good LLM translates like an extremely fluent, eloquent bilingual speaker
- Takeaway: the Universal Translator / Babel Fish is here, and almost nobody is discussing it
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