Came here to say this. As time goes on and they work on the hallucinating problem it could become an excellent tool to learn new languages as well. Once we personal assistants become common and integrated into our it could be told to slowly work in new words from the language your trying to learn. One of the biggest problems people face in learning is not having anywhere to practice.

It's kind of interesting how life mimics sci-fi at times.. the universal translator was described as almost tokenizing text like CLIP does and then detokenizing it back to the user's language.. I know its not as easy as that as different languages have contextual clues that appear at different parts of the sentence structure.. so real time translation may not be fully possible without some type of neural interface but near real time (a sentence at a time) is likely very achievable with near perfect accuracy...

My native language is Finnish, and it’s extremely good at it. Occasionally it will use some wording that seems off, but overall it’s excellent. It feels so strange to be able to converse about any topic in my own language that I’ve stuck with English just out of habit.

Ye because it translates the context perfectly, understands technical terms, Abbreviations and so on.

It is a bit slow, so I usually use Deepl but the quality is excellent at least for English to German.