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As a native Hokkien speaker, I am shocked to find the AI does it so well.

However, a significant part of Hokkien is from classic Chinese which has written symbols, and the other part is from some local dialect in Fujian.

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I had the privilege of taking a 10-week course on Hokkien when I lived in Taiwan, and while it is true that Hokkien is unwritten, it is also true that there are some classic poems that are really only intelligible when read in Hokkien. The evolution of Hokkien and how it relates to classic Chinese is utterly fascinating to me. I feel like my understanding of Chinese as a whole became a lot deeper after learning Hokkien.

People say that Hokkien is a dying / dead language, but the way I see it is that it won't die out completely in my lifetime so it's still worth learning.

We don’t know how much of that video is real and how much was pre-recorded (as they knew what the speaker would say).

During that same presentation, we also know that Zuckerberg lied about the metaverse and how characters are able to move their legs (it was filmed).

What is Facebook's motivation to lie about small-batch AI experiments?

The model is published here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/facebook/Hokkien_Translation

We can try it out right now. Given all of this, I am much more reason to believe this more than Zuck's metaverse claims.

He did not lie about the legs. He said they were coming soon. No different than any other marketing video about a sill-in-development, upcoming feature.

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