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"No way can a machine replace me", said everyone ever replaced by a machine.

Accurate translation is a rather simple matter imo, you "just" need a big enough database (built by humans, heh).

I also prefer reading the original jokes and idioms and looking up their meaning myself. It's more fun.

Large enough dataset + some way to see context. There could be an ambiguous word that is only found through accompanying media. A multimodal AI would be needed for that task. Maybe something like https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-mum/ would be up for the task, maybe not. But you are correct, people say a machine can't replace them until they do.

Sounds like what Deepl is doing. Surprisingly accurate between some languages, and the translation changes depending on context. But it needs way more human input/corrections before it can be near perfect.

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