@SorenMRiis @Camlarsch Det er det - 'længerevarende' er netop nøgleordet, det er det, vi (og jorden) trænger til.

@pg1958 Thank you!

@jwcph Tak

@RalphBassfeld Haha - for the sake of honesty, I must really start taking more photos of the place on its many boring grey days

@Camlarsch Tak - og ja, det må man sige. Til gengæld, i vores klimakollapsende verden, gælder regn nu som 'dejligt vejr'.

@wannabemystiker Tak i lige måde!

@macpsych Thank you!

Another week, another Monday. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a good, light, bright week.

@Krazov @HaTetsu I think it's fine that there was just an instant, visceral Nope! response from a room of mixed people with mixed knowledge of AI, GAI, language-learning machines etc. In that context, I don't think the nuances help, people would just get bogged down in them and it would derail the collective emotional message of 'no AI, we value human translators'.

@llanciawn That was indeed his answer, just packed in a little in diplomatic cotton wool. He handled it well, there on stage at an event. As did the translator - also his wife, also the interviewer - sitting there beside him. Fair play to her, she didn't even twitch.

@Pepijn I did actually wonder if it was even necessary to specify 'middle-aged man' there.

The man in the audience who attended a literary festival but doesn’t value human translation at least noticed the negative reaction when he advised an author to use AI instead of a professional human translator.

He said testily, as if addressing dim-witted children: "I mean a Language Learning machine. I’m not talking about Google Translate."

That struck me as a typical TechBro Reply Guy attitude. He assumes people object to generative AI because they don’t understand it, not because they do.

After their informative, witty and insightful conversation on stage, audience questions were invited. A middle-aged man asked the author: ”In future, would you not use AI language machines to translate your books instead?"

I take heart from the fact that a negative reaction instantly flew through the room. People gasped. One man literally booed. Many groaned and mumbled. One person may or may not have said OhForFucksSake aloud. That person may or may not have been me.

#AI
#Books
#Translation

Lucas Ruiz wrote a book in his native Spanish. Professional translator Ditte Brand translated it into Danish. She interviewed him at LiteratureXchange Aarhus Literary Festival. They happen to be married. This made the conversation about writing & translation even more interesting & entertaining. They live in Denmark. He speaks Danish. They discussed translation & editorial issues along the way but he chose not to read the final translated work as a whole. That is hers.

#Books #LitX #Translation

@Camlarsch Den mandagste mandag af dem alle, den første mandag efter ferien. God arbejdslyst!

@AgatheBleibtDaheim Tak i lige måde. I hope the heat is bearable!

@svedigtype I'm surprised to learn people think I go out to live-stream a photo at 6am every Monday! Same as a postcard in a shop, the postcards are taken in advance I include the time frame and context in the Alt Text.

@svedigtype Winter sunsets are the best!

Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a good, simple, calm week.

I suppose if stonework absolutely must make an eerie ghostly face peer out at you from the dark, then a church crypt from the year 1060 is the right place to do it