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What did Jun Rekimoto notice about Google Translate one Friday night?
What did Jun Rekimoto notice about Google Translate one Friday night?
- It had stopped working
- It had crashed
- It had become less accurate
- It had suddenly improved almost immeasurably (correct)
How did Jun Rekimoto describe Haruki Murakami's translation of 'The Great Gatsby'?
How did Jun Rekimoto describe Haruki Murakami's translation of 'The Great Gatsby'?
- In very polished Japanese (correct)
- In old-fashioned Japanese
- In colloquial Japanese
- In rough Japanese
What did Rekimoto write up his initial findings in?
What did Rekimoto write up his initial findings in?
- A social media post
- A blog post (correct)
- A newspaper article
- A research paper
What is the goal of the A.I.-enhanced assistants mentioned in the text?
What is the goal of the A.I.-enhanced assistants mentioned in the text?
Who is Jeff Dean and what role does he play at Google?
Who is Jeff Dean and what role does he play at Google?
What is the main focus of the three overlapping stories mentioned in the text?
What is the main focus of the three overlapping stories mentioned in the text?
What is the main difference between the traditional approach to artificial intelligence and the dissenting view?
What is the main difference between the traditional approach to artificial intelligence and the dissenting view?
Why does the traditional approach to artificial intelligence fail horribly in the field of translation?
Why does the traditional approach to artificial intelligence fail horribly in the field of translation?
Why did researchers consider the brain as the best model for flexible automated intelligence in the early 1940s?
Why did researchers consider the brain as the best model for flexible automated intelligence in the early 1940s?
What has Google Translate recently converted to for much of its traffic?
What has Google Translate recently converted to for much of its traffic?
What has been the impact of the new A.I. system on Google Translate?
What has been the impact of the new A.I. system on Google Translate?
What is the ultimate goal of 'artificial general intelligence,' as mentioned in the text?
What is the ultimate goal of 'artificial general intelligence,' as mentioned in the text?
What was the main giveaway that the second translation of Hemingway's 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' was the work of a machine?
What was the main giveaway that the second translation of Hemingway's 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' was the work of a machine?
What did Rekimoto do in his post regarding the translation service from Japanese to English?
What did Rekimoto do in his post regarding the translation service from Japanese to English?
What did Sadiq Khan compare himself to Google for?
What did Sadiq Khan compare himself to Google for?
Who pioneered the idea that humans don't learn language by memorizing dictionaries and grammar books?
Who pioneered the idea that humans don't learn language by memorizing dictionaries and grammar books?
What did the speech-recognition team at Google Brain encounter when they swapped out part of their old system for a neural network?
What did the speech-recognition team at Google Brain encounter when they swapped out part of their old system for a neural network?
Who was recruited to Google Brain as an intern after Andrew Ng left?
Who was recruited to Google Brain as an intern after Andrew Ng left?
Who demonstrated astonishing gains in a big image-recognition contest run by ImageNet?
Who demonstrated astonishing gains in a big image-recognition contest run by ImageNet?
Who comes from a family with a long history of making contributions to various intellectual fields?
Who comes from a family with a long history of making contributions to various intellectual fields?
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