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Actually translation was a triumph of pre-LLM AI: Machine translation increased international trade by 10%, literally having the same effect as shrinking the size of the world by 25%. https://t.co/rKfBXGeM7l
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Actually translation was a triumph of pre-LLM AI: Machine translation increased international trade by 10%, literally having the same effect as shrinking the size of the world by 25%. https://t.co/rKfBXGeM7l
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