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		red75prime on March 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using AI to match human performance in translating... Well, Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing was allegedly due to a translation error. It will certainly take time for a machine translation to catch up.

jkaptur on March 15, 2018 [–]

Can you provide a source with more information about that, please?

nocobot on March 15, 2018 | | [–]

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/21/opinion/l-good-translatio...

Apparently the translation of the Japanese response to the Allies ultimatum calling for their surrender might have been faulty.

red75prime on March 15, 2018 | | [–]

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