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Posted: 29 Dec 2018

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Big data can lead to a form of big blending. When you type a paragraph into Google Translate, the computer does not try to understand you. Instead, it compares what you have written with a massive database of existing human translations and searches, word-by-word and phase-by-phase, for the closest match. As a result, the software doesn't need a dictionary: translation becomes a matter of statistics. Indifferent to what you are saying, it views your text as a patchwork of other people's writing. In Renaissance polyphony, you can hear the blend of texts; in Google Translate, it occurs behind scenes. ~ Page 99 ("Runaway Species")
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THE RUNAWAY SPECIES
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