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Hinton discusses machine translation and imagines finding documents by the ideas they express.
- 1TranslationHinton anticipates improvements.
- 2DocumentsHe predicts progress in understanding text.
- 3ThemesHe imagines search by meaning.
Takeaways
- He anticipated better translation.
- He expected progress in document understanding.
- He imagined searching by themes rather than words.
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Machine translation
In a 2016 conversation, Geoffrey Hinton says he is excited about progress in machine translation, including work by his students, though he had not directly contributed to that work.
In a 2016 conversation, Geoffrey Hinton says he is excited about progress in machine translation, including work by his students, though he had not directly contributed to that work.
Understanding documents
He also predicts substantial progress in understanding documents over the following five to ten years.
He also predicts substantial progress in understanding documents over the following five to ten years.
Hinton imagines searching by themes or claims rather than matching exact words, so a system could find documents expressing an idea in different language.
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