Throw unimaginable amounts of data at a GPU, you convert words to numbers through an algorithm called word2vec, then correlate between the words in context, English on one side, unknown language on the other, just looking for any connection at all. If the vector products are above a threshold (we call that activation) then there might be a relationship.
Once you have it you experiment with it, try to make more associative connections building on that. The gpus just churn endlessly till they go ‘bing’.
We did a simpler version as humans with the Rosetta stone, it had Greek, which we knew, and 2 forms of Egyptian, which we didn’t.
Yeah the show is ludicrous in having someone point to a broom, say ‘mekh’ and the next sentence is ‘I’m afraid the current structure of relations in the alpha quadrant requires us to demand you no longer perform warp travel through our sector as we do not tolerate antimatter reactions under our religion’ translated from ‘guh-tah!’
So, as someone whose last job was in ai:
Sigh, yeah, this is basically how it works…
Throw unimaginable amounts of data at a GPU, you convert words to numbers through an algorithm called word2vec, then correlate between the words in context, English on one side, unknown language on the other, just looking for any connection at all. If the vector products are above a threshold (we call that activation) then there might be a relationship.
Once you have it you experiment with it, try to make more associative connections building on that. The gpus just churn endlessly till they go ‘bing’.
We did a simpler version as humans with the Rosetta stone, it had Greek, which we knew, and 2 forms of Egyptian, which we didn’t.
Yeah the show is ludicrous in having someone point to a broom, say ‘mekh’ and the next sentence is ‘I’m afraid the current structure of relations in the alpha quadrant requires us to demand you no longer perform warp travel through our sector as we do not tolerate antimatter reactions under our religion’ translated from ‘guh-tah!’
the best thing Ive seen created wth word2vec is semantle/pimantle