SURVEY: Gathering information for an argument about informal communications

2. The question is phrased oddly. On the surface it seems to intend to ask..."what is your secret that allows you to be so cool under pressure?" but the use of the word "fulfilled" instead of something more direct like "cool under pressure" or "calm in this situation" lends it a soupçon of "it must be nice to have had such a good life that you are able to be cool under pressure" with a whiff of resentment. This is with the giant caveat that it's written text and if spoken a certain way aloud, it would absolutely lose that second part or have it emphasized strongly, depending on the intonation.

But if the person did have a good life all along, would the person still have been able to be fulfilled as in cool under pressure? Isn’t something in life such as hardship that makes somebody cool in such circumstances?

Er, you certainly could be right about that but it's not in the text itself; "fulfilled" in no way means "cool under pressure." So in order to understand this phrase you have to infer the connection that fulfilled -> cool under pressure and that's what I'm keying off.

Edit: meaning the goal here is to analyze the speaker's intent, not whether philosophically being fulfilled implies cool under pressure.

There is a video with explicit text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50nlHgRYp1I

And there is an equally explicit translation made with a fresh ML model: https://t.me/lackprison/18610

FYI the model is made by Heygen Labs.

The general gist of the original video is that a human records a video reply to somebody which consists of detailing how non-existent his appreciation for masculine social status symbols is.

The original russian phrase is: "? ? ????? ???????? ????????? ?????????????, ??? ? ??? ????? ?? ??? 100 ?????????? ?????????? ??? ???????? ?? ?????????? ????? ?? ??????."

Somehow this is forum which does not support Unicode. So here is a Pastebin link: https://pastebin.com/XkFGKaam

To begin with, this original phrase is illiterate if taken at face value. If relaxed language rules were applied that would mean "I have gained knowledge as complete as if I was living for eternity in trillions of same worlds as Earth".

The translation by HeyGen is: "I in my knowledge have become so fullfilled that as if already a hundred trillion billion years I've been living on trillions and trillions of the same planets."

My argument is that the translation fails miserably by using the phrase "fulfilled in my knowledge" because there is no meaningful connection between the word "fulfill" and the rest of the phrase.

My opponent claims that it is a reasonable enough translation which a lot of native speakers would understand and using their college education in linguistics as an argument.

I would definitely agree with you, that is a terrible mistranslation of the idiomatic meaning of the phrase as you have outlined it. (But I have no way of knowing if it might be a decent literal translation).

I wonder if this AI may have been trained on public domain text that includes archaic use of that word to mean "filled up" instead of "content, happy" as it means in modern usage...

p.s. on the other hand, I think it is a delightful mental image- acquiring vast amounts of knowledge on uncountable worlds in the quest to become fulfilled...seems like a good premise for a scifi story....

IMO it's much simpler than you suggest. Machine Learning is not General Artificial Intelligence, so if you ask wrong question it will happily give plausible wrong answer. Since the input is illiterate it is unreasonable to expect anything valuable from such a model. Producing good translation which I suggested requires understanding of the subject and connections between objects of speech.