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What Is the Magic of Machine Learning?
Linguists thought languages are so different, that cultures are so different. But underneath all our massive and important cultural differences is a universal rubix cube. All you have to do is blur your eyes a little translate from one language to another. The technology of machine learning does is fix a scale problem. It takes the whole ocean and turns it into a glass of water. Suddenly we can see how all the languages in the world actually make the same shape. Underneath everything there's a kind of giant universal Rubix cube. And if you slot it into place, the colouring might be different, but sudden everything is order because people are mostly the same.