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this is very dismissive and binary and thats what this whole article is about. AI skeptic expect that's either AGI or perfect with all use cases or otherwise its useless. SST, translation and TTS went really far away in last 2 years. My mother who doesn't speak english find it very useful when she my sister in US. I find it super useful while travelling in asia. Definitely much more useful than what we had in Google Translate.


I'd understand calling it dismissive if your didn't choose as counterpoints:

- your mother visiting your sister (arguably extremely low stake. At any moment she can just phone your sister I presume ?)

- You traveling around (you're not trying to close a business deal or do anything irreversible)

Basically you seem to be agreeing that it's fine for convenience, but not ready for "science fiction" level use cases.




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