Imagine feeding the output from a 95% accurate speech recognition system though babelfish.
Check out the past story about the neural network that recognizes speech better than humans.
And on a similar subject, I think it'd be interesting to see neural networks applied to translation - they could possibly be trained to recognize idioms, produce more meaningful output, etc.
Personally, I'm used to being able to install a free *IX and have it serve as many clients as I have CPU time and bandwidth to handle. I was shocked the first time I found out that NT Server required you to buy a license for each client accessing it. People actually put up with this?
I have to say, I'm disappointed to see the "revenge of the geeks" theory shot down. Yes, it was a tragedy, but it did serve as an example to the world that if you press people hard enough they'll snap, even in high school.
I would have liked to see more attention given to that in the mainstream media: heaping blame upon jocks rather than upon goths/D&D players/movie watchers/(teen category du jour). But I suppose the media would rather tell the people what they want to hear.
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Check out the past story about the neural network that recognizes speech better than humans.
And on a similar subject, I think it'd be interesting to see neural networks applied to translation - they could possibly be trained to recognize idioms, produce more meaningful output, etc.
Personally, I'm used to being able to install a free *IX and have it serve as many clients as I have CPU time and bandwidth to handle. I was shocked the first time I found out that NT Server required you to buy a license for each client accessing it. People actually put up with this?
I would have liked to see more attention given to that in the mainstream media: heaping blame upon jocks rather than upon goths/D&D players/movie watchers/(teen category du jour). But I suppose the media would rather tell the people what they want to hear.