Multipass, Confucius in the Machine
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2026 11:55 am
I am doing my own edition of the Analects of Confucius commensurate with today's mentality, which I am calling Confucius in the machine.
I isolated all the Chinese From the Analects, but instead of translating it, I am having Google Translate and Microsoft Translate do the translations. Now, I about done with it, and can say that Microsoft's translate is horrid, and cannot hold a candle to Google's. So how is it, both of these companies can rave about A.I. when it cannot even translate text well?
Anyway, I am 10 books short of finishing with the Microsoft Translate, too wore out to finish. Need sleep.
It is formatted like this, A whole Book of Chinese followed by a whole book of Google, then a whole book of Microsoft. This pattern for all twenty books. Microsoft translate can not even settle on how it is number each part, sometimes it does it using ordinal grammar, sometimes cardinal, i.e., Some times Chapter One, and sometimes Chapter 1. I think Google uses the correct Cardinal, i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, instead of the Ordinal One or First, etc. Anyway when it is done, you can have a good laugh at Microsoft, very odd translations at times.
Multipass is from the 5th Element.
I isolated all the Chinese From the Analects, but instead of translating it, I am having Google Translate and Microsoft Translate do the translations. Now, I about done with it, and can say that Microsoft's translate is horrid, and cannot hold a candle to Google's. So how is it, both of these companies can rave about A.I. when it cannot even translate text well?
Anyway, I am 10 books short of finishing with the Microsoft Translate, too wore out to finish. Need sleep.
It is formatted like this, A whole Book of Chinese followed by a whole book of Google, then a whole book of Microsoft. This pattern for all twenty books. Microsoft translate can not even settle on how it is number each part, sometimes it does it using ordinal grammar, sometimes cardinal, i.e., Some times Chapter One, and sometimes Chapter 1. I think Google uses the correct Cardinal, i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, instead of the Ordinal One or First, etc. Anyway when it is done, you can have a good laugh at Microsoft, very odd translations at times.
Multipass is from the 5th Element.