Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn

Translator: Liridon Shala Reviewer: Robert Lokaj

How many of you had to fill out a web form

Sa prej jush i'u eshte dashur te mbushonje ndonje form ne web ( faqe interneti )

where you've been asked to read

ku ju eshte kerkuar te lexoni nje sekuenc te qrregullt te nje karakterit sikurse ky ?

a distorted sequence of characters like this?

Sa prej jush e keni gjetur verte te tepruar?

How many of you found it really annoying?

Ne rregull, dalluar. Pra e kam ftuar ate.

(Laughter)

OK, outstanding. So I invented that.

(Qeshen)

(Laughter)

ndoshta une isha njeri nga njerzit qe e bera ate.

Or I was one of the people who did it.

Ajo gje eshte quajtur nje CAPTACHA

That thing is called a CAPTCHA.

dhe arsyja eshte atje per te bere te sigurt juve , etnitetit per te mbushur forma.

And it is there to make sure you, the entity filling out the form,

jane ne te vertet njerzore jo ndonje lloj programi kompjuterik

are a human and not a computer program

atje ishte shkruar per ta derguar formen, miliona dhe miliona herë.

that was written to submit the form millions of times.

Arsyeja perse funksionon eshte sepse njerezit,

The reason it works is because humans, at least non-visually-impaired humans,

te pakten jo-vizualisht jo njeri i bashkangjitur,

ska probleme leximi keto karaktere te qorjentuara,

have no trouble reading these distorted characters,

ku programet kompjuterike thjesht nuk mund ti bejen ato deri me tani.

whereas programs can't do it as well yet.

In the case of Ticketmaster,

per shembull ne rastin e nje perdoruesi te tiketave

the reason you have to type these characters

arsyje se ju duhet ti shenoni gjith ato karaktere te qorjentuara

is to prevent scalpers from writing a program

eshte per te mbrojtur skulptoret per te shkruar nje program

that can buy millions of tickets, two at a time.

i cili mund te blen miliona tiketa, dy me njeher.

CAPTCHAs are used all over the Internet.

CAPTCHA perdoret neper te gjith internetin.

And since they're used so often,

gjersa jan duke u perdorur kaq shume,

a lot of times the sequence of random characters shown to the user

shum her sekuencat precize jan te karaktereve te rendomta te cilat u shfaqen shfrytzuesve

nuk eshte sa me fat.

is not so fortunate.

So this is an example from the Yahoo registration page.

pra ky eshte nje shembulle from regjistrimit në Yahoo.

The random characters that happened to be shown to the user

Karakteri i rendomt i cili ndodh te shfaqet tek nje perdorues

ku W,A,I,T te cilat sigurisht shqiptojne nje fjali.

were W, A, I, T, which, of course, spell a word.

mirpo pjesa me e mir eshte porosia

But the best part is the message

that the Yahoo help desk got about 20 minutes later.

qe Yahoo ndihmuesi ka rreth 20 minuta me vone

[Help! I've been waiting for over 20 minutes and nothing happens.]

Teksti "Ndihm! Kam mbi 20 minute qe pres dhe asgje nuk ka ndodhur"

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

This person thought they needed to wait.

Ky person mendon qe ata duhet te presin.

This, of course, is not as bad as this poor person.

Ky sigurisht qe nuk eshte aq keq sa nje person i varfer.

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

CAPTCHA Project is something that we did at Carnegie Melllon over 10 years ago,

CAPTCHA projekti eshte diqka qe e kemi bere ketu ne CARNEIGE MELLON para 10 viteve

dhe eshte perdorur gjdokunde.

and it's been used everywhere.

Let me now tell you about a project that we did a few years later,

Me lejoni t'ju tregoj tashi per nje projekt qe e kemi bere ketyre viteve te fundit,

i cili eshte nje lloje i evulucionit te se ardhmes

which is sort of the next evolution of CAPTCHA.

Kete projekt e kemi quajtur reCAPTCHA,

This is a project that we call reCAPTCHA,

i cili eshte diqka qe kemi filluar kete tek Carneigie Mellon,

which is something that we started here at Carnegie Mellon,

dhe me pas e kthyem ne nje kompani

then we turned it into a start-up company.

dhe pastaj rreth nje viti e gjysme me vone,

And then about a year and a half ago, Google actually acquired this company.

Google bleu kete kompani.

Pra me lejoni t'ju them se qfar ishte projekti i filluar

Let me tell you what this project started.

pra projekti filloj nga realizimet siq vijojnë:

This project started from the following realization:

u kthye qe parafersisht rreth 200 milion CAPTCHA-ne

It turns out that approximately 200 million CAPTCHAs

jan duke shkruar gjdo dite ne tere boten.

are typed everyday by people around the world.

When I first heard this, I was quite proud of myself.

Kur e negjova kete, me te vertet isha krenar me veten time

Mendova shiqoni impaktin qe kishte kerkimi ime

I thought, look at the impact my research has had.

mirpo me pas fillova te ndihem keq/

But then I started feeling bad.

Pra ketu eshte gjeja, gjdoher qe e shkruan CAPTCHA,

Here's the thing: each time you type a CAPTCHA,

esencialisht ju keni humbur 10 sekonda te kohes suaj

essentially, you waste 10 seconds of your time.

And if you multiply that by 200 million,

dhe po te shumzonit me 200 milion

you get that humanity is wasting about 500,000 hours every day

ju mund te merrni kete humanitet si pergjethsi jane duke humbur rreth 500,000 ore gjdo dite

typing these annoying CAPTCHAs.

duke shenuar keto CAPTACHA te merzitshme.

(Laughter)

dhe me pas fillova te nidhem keq.

So then I started feeling bad.

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

And then I started thinking, of course, we can't just get rid of CAPTCHAs,

dhe me pas fillova te mendoj, mire sigurisht ne nuk mundemi te heqim qafesh Captchas-it

sepse siguria e web-it mvaret nga ato.

because the security of the web depends on them.

pastaj fillova te mendoj, a ka ndonje menyr tjeter qe mundemi te perdorim ket mundesi

But then I started thinking, can we use this effort

for something that is good for humanity?

per diqka qe eshte ne te miren e njerezimit?

So see, here's the thing.

pra shiq e shihni ketu eshte gjeja.

While you're typing a CAPTCHA, during those 10 seconds,

Gjersa jemi duke shenuar CAPTCHA, gjat atyre 10 sekondave

truri juaj eshte duke bere diqka te mahniteshme

your brain is doing something amazing.

Your brain is doing something that computers cannot yet do.

truri juaj eshte duke bere diqka qe kompjuteri deri tani nuk munden te bejne.

pra e mundemi te bejme ndonje pune te dobishme per ato 10 sekonda?

So can we get you to do useful work for those 10 seconds?

nje menyr tjeter e vendosjes se kesaj eshte

Is there some humongous problem that we cannot yet get computers to solve,

a ka ndonje problem tjeter homogjem te cilin kompjuteret e tanishem nuk mund ta zgjedhin,

deri tani mundemi te ndajme keto 10 sekonda te kushtueshme

yet we can split into tiny 10-second chunks

such that each time somebody solves a CAPTCHA,

saqe secilen koh kur dikush zgjedh nje CAPTCHA

ata zgjedhin ngapak te ketij problemi?

they solve a little bit of this problem?

dhe pergjigjeja per ate eshte "PO" dhe kjo eshte ajo se qfar ne po e bejme tani.

And the answer to that is "yes," and this is what we're doing now.

pra ate qe ju ndoshta nuk mundeni ta dini ketyre ditve eshte se kur ju jeni duke shenuar nje CAPTCHA,

Nowadays, while you're typing a CAPTCHA,

jo qe vetem ju jeni duke e autorizuar vetveten tuaj si njeri,

not only are you authenticating yourself as a human,

por ne perparsi ju jeni duke i ndihmuar digjitalizimit te nje libri.

but in addition you're helping us to digitize books.

pra me lejoni t'ju shpjegoj se si funksionon.

Let me explain how this works.

Jan shum projekte te cilat jan duke u munduar per te digjitalizuar libra.

There's a lot of projects trying to digitize books.

Google ka nje. Arhivi i interneti ka poashtu.

Google has one. The Internet Archive has one.

Amazoni tani me Kindle (lexuesi i librave elektronik) provon te digjitalizoj libra.

Amazon, with the Kindle, is trying to digitize books.

Faktikisht menyra se si funksionon

Basically, the way this works is you start with an old book.

eshte ju filloni me nje liber te vjeter.

You've seen those things, right?

I keni pare keto gjere mire? sikurse nje liber ?

Like a book?

(Qeshen)

(Laughter)

So you start with a book and then you scan it.

Pra filloni me nje liber, dhe e skanoni ate

Tashi skanimi i nje libre

Now, scanning a book

is like taking a digital photograph of every page.

eshte sikurse te marrim nje fotografi digjitale te seciles faqe te nje libri

te jep nje imazh per secilen faqe te librit

It gives you an image for every page.

Ky eshte nje imazh me tekst per secilen faqe

This is an image with text for every page of the book.

Hapi tjeter eshte proces.

The next step in the process is that the computer needs to be able

te cilin kompjuterit i nevoitet te jet te ngjendje ti nxierr te gjitha fjalet nga ky imazh.

to decipher the words in this image.

Ata e perdorin nje teknologji te quajtur OCR,

That's using a technology called OCR, for optical character recognition,

per karakte optice te nxierruar,

which takes a picture of text

te cilat i merr si fotografi nga teksti

and tries to figure out what text is in there.

dhe fillon ta gjeje se qfar teksti eshte atje.

Now, the problem is that OCR is not perfect.

Tashi problemi eshte se OCR-ja nuk eshte perfekt

Ne veqanti per libra te vjeter

Especially for older books

where the ink has faded and the pages have turned yellow,

ku ngjyra ka filluar te bie dhe faqet jan bere ne te verdh,

OCR cannot recognize a lot of the words.

OCR-ja nuk mundet ti nxierr te gjitha fjalet.

For things that were written more than 50 years ago,

Per shembull, per gjerat te cilat ishin shkruar para 50 viteve

kompjuteri nuk mundet ti nxierr rreth 30 perqind te fjalve.

the computer cannot recognize about 30 percent of the words.

Pra qfar jemi duke bere tani

So now we're taking all of the words that the computer cannot recognize

eshte ne po i nxierrim te gjitha fjalit te cilat kompjuteret nuk munden

and we're getting people to read them for us

dhe po i'a japim njerzve qe ti lexojne ato per neve

while they're typing a CAPTCHA on the Internet.

gjersa ata jan duke shenuar nje CAPTCHA ne internet

pra heren tjeter kur ju jeni duke shenuar nje CAPTCHA, keto fjali qe jeni duke i shenuar

So the next time you type a CAPTCHA, these words that you're typing

jan ne fakt fjalit te cilat jane duke ardhur nga librat te cilat po digjitalizohen

are actually words from books that are being digitized

that the computer could not recognize.

qe kompjuteri nuk mundnte ti nxierrte.

The reason we have two words nowadays instead of one

dhe arsyeja perse ne kemi dy fjali koheve te fundit dhe jo nje

eshte sepse ju shihni, njeren nga fjalet

is because one of the words

is a word that the system just got out of a book,

eshte fjale te cilen sistemi sapo e ka nxierr nga nje liber,

nuk e dinte se qfar ishte, vetem do t'ua prezentoj para jush.

it didn't know what it was and it's going to present it to you.

meqe nuk e din pergjigjejen e tij, smundet ta noton per ty.

But since it doesn't know the answer, it cannot grade it.

qfar ne bejme eshte ju japi nje fjali tjeter,

So we give you another word,

for which the system does know the answer.

nje nga te cilen systemi e di pergjigjejen.

We don't tell you which one's which and we say, please type both.

ne nuk ju themi se cila eshte cila, dhe ne ju themi ju lutem shtypni te dyja.

nese e keni shkruar fjalin korrekte

And if you type the correct word

per te cilen sistemi e din pergjigjejen

for the one for which the system knows the answer,

e pranon se je njeri,

it assumes you are human

and it also gets some confidence that you typed the other word correctly.

dhe gjithashtu pranon nje konfidenc qe ju jeni duke shtypur fjalin tjeter te saket.

dhe nese e perseritim kete proces tek 10 njerez te ndryshum

And if we repeat this process to 10 different people

dhe te gjith prej tyre pajtohen se qfar eshte fjalia e re

and they agree on what the new word is,

ateher ne kemi digjitalizuar nje fjali te re saktesisht.

then we get one more word digitized accurately.

pra ky keshtu funksionon sistemi.

So this is how the system works.

faktikisth, qe nga data e leshimit qe ka qen rreth 3 apo kater vite me pare

And since we released it about three or four years ago,

shum web faqe kan filluar ti ndrrojne

a lot of websites have started switching from the old CAPTCHA,

nga CAPTCHA e vjeter ku njerzit humbsin kohen e tyre

where people wasted their time,

tek CATPCHA e re ku njerzit jane duke ndihmuar digjitalizimin e librave.

to the new CAPTCHA where people are helping to digitize books.

pershembull, Tiketuesi master

So every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster,

Pra gjodher kur ju blenje nje tiket, ju i ndihmoni digjitalizimit te nje libri.

you help to digitize a book.

Facebook: gjdoher kur ju shtoni nje shok ose pokoni dike,

Facebook: Every time you add a friend or poke somebody,

ju jeni duke i ndihmuar digjitalizimit.

you help to digitize a book.

Twitter dhe rreth 350,000 faqe tjera jan duke perdorur reCAPTCHA

Twitter and about 350,000 other sites are all using reCAPTCHA.

dhe ne fakt, numri i web faqeve qe jan duke perdorur eshte shum i larte

And the number of sites that are using reCAPTCHA is so high

dhe numri i fjalive te cilat jane duke u digjitalizuar per nje dite eshte shum shum i madh.

that the number of words we're digitizing per day is really large.

eshte rreth 100 milion per nje dite,

It's about 100 million a day,

e cila eshte ekuivalente rreth dy e gjysme milioni libra per nje vite.

which is the equivalent of about two and a half million books a year.

dhe e gjith kjo eshte duke u ber me nga nje fjali per njeher

And this is all being done one word at a time

me njerzit duke shtypur CAPTCHA ne internet.

by just people typing CAPTCHAs on the Internet.

(Duartrokitje)

(Applause)

Now, of course,

Tani sigurisht,

since we're doing so many words per day,

meqe jemi duke i ber shum fjali per nje dit,

gjera te quditshme munden te ndodhin.

funny things can happen.

This is especially true because now we're giving people

Dhe tani me te vertet eshte sepse ne jemi duke i dhen njerezve

dy zgjidhje te rendomta ne anglisht fjali ngjitur me njera tjetren.

two randomly chosen English words next to each other.

pra gjera qesharake munden te ndodhin.

So funny things can happen.

pershembull, ne prezentuam ket fjali.

For example, we presented this word.

eshte fjali "Kristianet" nuk ka asgje te keqe me te.

It's the word "Christians"; there's nothing wrong with it.

mirpo nese e prezentoni se bashku me nje fjali tjeter te rendomt,

But if you present it along with another randomly chosen word,

gjera te keqija mund te ndodhin.

bad things can happen.

pra kemi kete tekst keq Krishtianisum

So we get this.

[bad Christians]

madje edhe me keq, sepse disa web faqe ishin duke e shfaqur kete

But it's even worse, because the website where we showed this

faktikisht ndodhi te jen quajtur Ambasada e zotit te britanis se madhe.

actually happened to be called The Embassy of the Kingdom of God.

(Qeshen)

(Laughter)

Opps.

Oops.

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

Ketu eshte nje tjeter shum e keqe

Here's another really bad one.

JohnEdwards.com

JohnEdwards.com

[Damn liberal]

(Teksti: libreralet e kqninje)

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

pra e mbajke kete majtas dhe djathtas gjdo dite.

So we keep on insulting people left and right everyday.

Tani, sigurisht ne nuk jemi duke i inslutura njerzit.

Of course, we're not just insulting people.

shiqoni ketu, meqe ne jemi duke ju prezentuar dy fjalo te rendomta zgjedhore,

Here's the thing. Since we're presenting two randomly chosen words,

gjera interesante munden te ndodhin.

interesting things can happen.

So this actually has given rise to a really big Internet meme

pra ne fakt ka nje rritje

tek nje gje shum e madhe ne internet

that tens of thousands of people have participated in,

ku qindra dhe mijera njerz kan participuar ne te,

e cila eshte quajtur arti i CAPTCHA.

which is called CAPTCHA art.

I'm sure some of you have heard about it.

Jam shum i sigurt qe disa nga ju keni degjuar per kete.

Here's how it works.

ketu eshte se si punon.

Imagine you're using the Internet and you see a CAPTCHA

Imagjinoni ju jeni duke perdorur internetin dhe e shifni nje CAPTCHA

that you think is somewhat peculiar,

dhe ju mendoni se eshte diqka e njohur nga diku,

like this CAPTCHA.

sikurse kjo CAPTCHA

[invisible toaster]

What you're supposed to do is you take a screenshot of it.

Pastaj qfar ju duhet te beni eshte te shtypni butnin per te marruar ekranin tuaj.

pastaj sigurisht qe do te mbushni formen e CAPTCHA

Then of course, you fill out the CAPTCHA because you help us digitize a book.

sepse ju ndihmoni te digjitalizoni nje liber.

mirpo se pari shtypni butonin per printimin e kranit,

But first you take a screenshot

and then you draw something that is related to it.

dhe pastaj ju vizatoni diqka qe lidhet me te.

(Qeshen)

(Laughter)

That's how it works.

Pra keshtu punon.

(Laughter)

There are tens of thousands of these.

Jan dhjetra dhe mira nga keto.

Some of them are very cute.

disa nga to jan shum te lezetshme

[clenched it]

(Qeshen)

(Laughter)

disa nga to jane qesharake

Some of them are funnier.

(Tekst: ideatoret)

[stoned Founders]

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

And some of them, like paleontological shvisle ...

dhe disa nga ta,

sikurse gurdhendesit,

(Laughter)

ata permbajn snoop dogg

they contain Snoop Dogg.

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

OK, so this is my favorite number of reCAPTCHA.

Ne rregull, pra ky eshte numri im i preferuar i re-CAPTCHA

pra ky eshte pjesa dhe gjeja kryesore qe u dua me se shumti mbi te gjith ket projekt.

So this is the favorite thing that I like about this whole project.

My eshte numri i dalluar i njerezve

This is the number of distinct people

te cilet na kan ndihmuar neve per te digjitalizuar te pakten nje nga fjalit e librave nepermjet reCAPTCHA:

that have helped us digitize at least one word out of a book through reCAPTCHA:

750 milion,

750 million, a little over 10 percent of the world's population,

i cili eshte me pak se 10 perqindshi i popllsis botrore,

has helped us digitize human knowledge.

te cilet na kane ndihmuar neve te digjitalizojme njohurit e njerzimit.

And it is numbers like these that motivate my research agenda.

dhe numrat sikurse ky te cilet me motivojne ne agjenden e kerkimit tim.

So the question that motivates my research is the following:

Pra pyetja e cila me motivon kerkimin tim eshte:

Po ta shiqoni te arrituart e njerezimit ne nje mas te madhe,

If you look at humanity's large-scale achievements,

jane me te vertet gjera shum te mdha

these really big things

that humanity has gotten together and done historically --

qe humaniteti i ka bere se bashku dhe i ka krijuar neper histori --

like, for example, building the pyramids of Egypt

sirkuse per shembull, ndertimi i piradimave te Egjiptit

or the Panama Canal

apo Kanalin e panamase

or putting a man on the Moon --

ose vendosja e njeriut ne Hene-

there is a curious fact about them,

eshte nje fakt kurioz rreth tyre,

and it is that they were all done with about the same number of people.

dhe e gjitha eshte bere pothuajse me te njejtin numer te njerezve

eshte e quditshme; te gjitha keto ishin bere me rreth 100,000 njerez

It's weird; they were all done with about 100,000 people.

dhe arsyeja per ate eshte sepse , perpara internetit,

And the reason for that is because, before the Internet,

te kordinosh me teper se 100,000 njerez

coordinating more than 100,000 people,

te paguash veqmash per secili ishte pothuajse e pamundur.

let alone paying them, was essentially impossible.

mirpo tani me internetin, Ju kam treguar nje projekt

But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project

ku patem 750 milion njerez

where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.

te cilet na ndihmuan te digjitalizojme njohurit e njerezimit.

pra pyetja e cila me motivon kerkimin tim eshte,

So the question that motivates my research is,

Nese ne mundemi ta vendosim nje njeri ne hene me 100,000

if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000,

what can we do with 100 million?

qfar mundemi te bejeme me 100 milion?

So based on this question,

pra bazuar ne kete pyetje,

we've had a lot of different projects that we've been working on.

ne kemi pasur shum lloje projektesh te cilat kemi punuar ne.

Me lejoni t'ju them rreth nje projekti te cilin jam shum i knaqur me.

Let me tell you about one that I'm most excited about.

This is something that we've been semiquietly working on

Kjo eshte diqka qe kemi punuar koh-pas-kohe

vitin e fundit apo me teper.

for the last year and a half or so.

akoma nuk eshte lansuar. E quajme Duolingo.

It hasn't yet been launched. It's called Duolingo.

me qe nuk eshte lancuar akoma , shhhhh!

Since it hasn't been launched, shhh!

(Qeshen)

(Laughter)

Yeah, I can trust you'll do that.

po, Une mundem t'ju besoj juve ate.

Pra ky eshte projekti. Ja se si filloi.

So this is the project. Here's how it started.

Filloj me mua duke postuar nje pyetje tek studentat e mi.

It started with me posing a question to my graduate student, Severin Hacker.

Severin hacker.

Ne rregull, ai eshte Severn Hacker.

OK, that's Severin Hacker.

Pra e postova pyetjen tek studentat e mi

So I posed the question to my graduate student.

mirpo menyra se si ju me degjuat mua saktesisht;

By the way, you did hear me correctly; his last name is Hacker.

mbiemri i tij eshte Hacker.

(Laughter)

Pra i postova pyetjen atij:

So I posed this question to him: How can we get 100 million people

Si mund ti marrim 100 milion njerez

translating the web into every major language for free?

ta perkthejm web-in ne secilen gjuh kryesore pa pages?

Ne rregull, jane shum gjera per te thene rreth kesaj pyetje.

There's a lot of things to say about this question.

Se pari , per ta perkthyer web-in

First of all, translating the web.

Per momentin web-i eshte i pozicionuar ne shumicen e gjuheve.

Right now, the web is partitioned into multiple languages.

Nje shum e madhe e tij eshte ne Anglisht.

A large fraction of it is in English.

Nese nuk e di fare Anglishten, ju smuneni te keni akces tek ai.

If you don't know English, you can't access it.

mirpo jan edhe shum pjes tjera ne gjuh te ndryshme,

But there's large fractions in other different languages,

dhe nese nuk i din ato gjuh nuk mundesh te kesh akcez tek ai.

and if you don't know them, you can't access it.

Pra une deshiroj te perkthej te gjith web-in apo pjesen me te madhe te tij,

So I would like to translate all of the web,

or at least most of it, into every major language.

ne te gjitha gjuhet kryesore.

pra kjo eshte ajo qe une dua te beje.

That's what I would like to do.

Now, some of you may say, why can't we use computers to translate?

Tani disa nga ju mundeni te thoni , perse nuk mundemi te perdorim kompjuterin per ta perkthyer ate?

perse nuk mundemi te perdorim perkthyesin makin?

Machine translation is starting to translate

Perkthyesit makin koheve te fundit jane duke perkthyer disa fjali ketu atu.

some sentences here and there.

perse nuk mundemi te perdorim ta perkthejme te gjith web-in?

Why can't we use it to translate the web?

Mire por problemi eshte sepse nuk mundemi te jemi shum te mire per ta bere kete

The problem with that is it's not yet good enough

dhe perafersisht nuk do te mund ta bejem kete edhe per 15 apo 20 vitet e ardheshme.

and it probably won't be for the next 15 to 20 years.

Ben shume gabime.

It makes a lot of mistakes. Even when it doesn't,

Madje edhe kur nuk bene ndonje gabim,

since it makes so many mistakes, you don't know whether to trust it or not.

meqe bene shume gabime ne nuk e dim se a ti besoj apo jo.

Pra me lejoni t'ju jap nje shembull

So let me show you an example

of something that was translated with a machine.

apo diqka qe ishte perkthyer me nje makineri.

Faktikisht ishte nje postim ne forum.

Actually, it was a forum post.

It was somebody who was trying to ask a question about JavaScript.

Ishte dikush qe kishte provuar te beje nje pyetje rreth JavaScritp-it (program per programera)

It was translated from Japanese into English.

Ishte perkthyer nga Japonishtja ne Anglisht.

So I'll just let you read.

Pra vetem do t'ju le te lexoni.

This person starts apologizing

Personi filloj te kerkoj falje

for the fact that it's translated with a computer.

per faktin qe ishte perkthyer me nje kompjuer.

So the next sentence is going to be the preamble to the question.

Pra fjalia tjeter do te jet direkt e marrur nga pyetja.

Pra ai vetem po sqaron diqka.

So he's just explaining something.

Kujtoni, eshte pyetja rreth JavaScritp-it.

Remember, it's a question about JavaScript.

[At often, the goat-time install a error is vomit.]

(Teksti: shpesh, koha e instalimit gabim kaniher)

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

Then comes the first part of the question.

Pastaj vjen pjesa e pare e pyetjes.

[How many times like the wind, a pole, and the dragon?]

Tekst: Sa herë si era, një shtyllë, dhe dragon

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

Pastaj vjen pjesa ime e preferuar e pyetjes.

Then comes my favorite part of the question.

[This insult to father's stones?]

(Tekst: ky ka instulim per baban e gurve?)

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

dhe pastaj vjen pjesa e fundit,e cila eshte me e preferuar e te gjith kesaj gjeje.

And then comes the ending,

which is my favorite part of the whole thing.

(Tekst: Ju lutem me falni per marrezin tuaj. Jan shum faliminderit.)

[Please apologize for your stupidity. There are a many thank you.]

(Laughter)

(Qeshen)

OK, so computer translation, not yet good enough.

Ne rregull, pra perkthimi me kompjuteri, nuk eshte akom i mire.

Pra kthehemi tek pyetja.

So back to the question.

Pra na nevoiten njerez per ta perkthyer te gjithe web-in.

So we need people to translate the whole web.

Tani pyetja tjeter te cilin ju mund ta keni eshte,

So now the next question you may have is,

mire, perse nuk mundemi te paguaj njerez per ta bere kete?

well, why can't we just pay people to do this?

Ne mundemi te paguaj perkthyer profesional per ta perkthyer te gjith web-in.

We could pay professional translators to translate the whole web.

Ne mundemi te ta beje kete.

We could do that.

Unfortunately, it would be extremely expensive.

Fatkeqesisht, do te ishte ekstremisht e shtrenjet.

For example, translating a tiny fraction of the whole web, Wikipedia,

Per shembull, perkthimi ne pjes te vogla fraksion te te gjithe web-it, Wikipedia,

ne nje gjuh tjeter, Spanjollisht.

into one other language, Spanish.

OK? Wikipedia exists in Spanish,

Wikipedia eksiston ne Spanjollisht,

but it's very small compared to the size of English.

mirpoo eshte shum e vogel nese e krahazojme me madhesin e Anglishtes.

eshte rreth 20 perqind te madhesis se Anglishtes.

It's about 20 percent of the size of English.

nese deshirojme te perkthejme pjesen e 80 perqindeshit ne Spanjollisht,

If we wanted to translate the other 80 percent into Spanish,

do te kushtonte se paku 50 milion dollare --

it would cost at least 50 million dollars --

dhe ky eshte sepaku shteti me outsort jasht.

and this is even at the most exploited, outsourcing country out there.

pra do te jet shume e shtrejte.

So it would be very expensive.

Pra qfar deshirojme te bejme eshte deshirojme ti marrim 100 milion njerez

So what we want to do is, we want to get 100 million people

perkthimin e te gjith web-it ne shumicen e gjuheve

translating the web into every major language for free.

pa pages.

Tashi nese kjo eshte ajo se qfar deshirojme te bejme,

If this is what you want to do, you quickly realize

shum shpejt do te zbulonin qe ju jeni duke diqka shum te madhe,

you're going to run into two big hurdles, two big obstacles.

dy pengesa te medhaja.

The first one is a lack of bilinguals.

E para eshte mungesa e pageses.

So I don't even know

Pra une nuk e di

if there exists 100 million people out there using the web

nese eksistojne 100 milion njerez atje te cilet e perdorin web-in

who are bilingual enough to help us translate.

kush eshte i interesuar te na ndihmoje neve per ta perkthyer.

Ky eshte nje problem i madh.

That's a big problem.

The other problem you're going to run into is a lack of motivation.

Problemi tjeter ne te cilin do te hasim eshte mungesa e motivimit.

Si do ti motivojme njerezit

How are we going to motivate people to actually translate the web for free?

per ta perkthyer Webin pa pages?

Normalisht, ju duhet te paguni njerezit per ta bere kete.

Normally, you have to pay people to do this.

So how are we going to motivate them to do it for free?

pra si do ti motivojme ata per ta bere kete pa pages?

Tashi kur ne filluam te mendojme per kete, ne ishim te bllokuar nga keto dy gjera.

When we were starting to think about this, we were blocked by these two things.

Mirpo ne e gjetem, se ne te vertet eshte nje menyr

But then we realized, there's a way

per ti zgjidhur te dyja keto probleme me te njejten menyre

to solve both these problems with the same solution.

Eshte nje menyre per te vrare dy zogj me te njejtin guri.

To kill two birds with one stone.

dhe kjo eshte per ta transpormuar gjuhen ne nje perkthim

And that is to transform language translation

into something that millions of people want to do

ne diqka qe miliona njere deshirojne te bejne,

and that also helps with the problem of lack of bilinguals,

dhe ajo gjithashtu na ndihmon neve me mungeses se pagesave.

and that is language education.

dhe kjo eshe edukimi gjuhesore.

So it turns out that today,

pra u kthye qe sot,

there are over 1.2 billion people learning a foreign language.

jan mbi 1.2 miljard njereze te cilet mesoje nje gjuh te huaje.

Njerezit me te vertet deshirojne te mesojne nje gjuh te huaje.

People really want to learn a foreign language.

dhe nuk eshte sepse jan te detyruar me force per te mesuar kete ne shkolle.

And it's not just because they're being forced to do so in school.

Pershembull, ne ShBA vetem,

In the US alone, there are over five million people

jane me teper se 5 milion njereze te cilet kan paguar mbi 500 dollar

who have paid over $500 for software to learn a new language.

per nje softuer per te mesuar nje gjuhe te re.

pra njerezit me te vertet deshirojne te mesojne nje gjuhe te re.

So people really want to learn a new language.

pra ne qfar kemi punuar ne vitin e fundit eshte nje web i ri --

So what we've been working on for the last year and a half

i quajtur Duolingo --

is a new website -- it's called Duolingo --

idea eshte qe njerezit te mesojne nje gjuh te re pa pages

where the basic idea is people learn a new language for free

while simultaneously translating the web.

e cila stimulon perkthimin e web-it

dhe faktikisht eshte e thjesht sikurse te mesuarit duke e bere.

And so basically, they're learning by doing.

Pra menyra se si funksionon

So the way this works

is whenever you're a just a beginner, we give you very simple sentences.

kurdohere qe ju jeni nje fillestar, ne ju japim fjali shum shum te thjeshta.

Sigurisht qe ka shum shum fjali te thjeshta ne web.

There's a lot of very simple sentences on the web.

Ne ju japim shum shum fjali te thjeshta

We give you very simple sentences along with what each word means.

sebashku me te dhe kuptimin e fjalise.

And as you translate them

dhe duke i perkthyer ato, dhe duke i pare njerezit duke i perkthyer ato

and as you see how other people translate them,

ju filloni te mesoni gjuhen.

you start learning the language.

dhe sa me shum qe ju profesionalizoheni,

And as you get more advanced,

we give you more complex sentences to translate.

ne ju japim me shum fjali te veshtira per ti perkthyer.

But at all times, you're learning by doing.

mirpo gjat gjith kohes, ju jeni duke mesuar duke e bere.

Now, the crazy thing about this method is that it actually really works.

Tashi gjeja e qmenduar rreth kesaj metode

eshte sa ne fakt funksionon per mrekulli.

People are really learning a language.

se pari njerezit jane me te vertet per te mesuar nje gjuhe.

We're mostly done building it and now we're testing it.

Jemi pothuajse te perfunduar, te ndertuari ate, tashi jemi duke e testuar ate.

Njerezit munden te mesojne nje gjuh me te.

People really can learn a language with it.

Dhe ata e mesojne ate sikurse programi per mesimin e gjuheve.

And they learn it about as well as the leading language learning software.

Pra njerezit me te vertet mesojne nje gjuhe.

So people really do learn a language.

dhe jo vetem qe e mesojne,

And not only do they learn it as well, but actually it's more interesting.

por eshte shum me interesante.

Sepse ju e shihni me Duolingo, njerezit e mesojne kontentin real.

Because with Duolingo, people are learning with real content.

Jo sikurse te mesuarit me fjali te bera gati,

As opposed to learning with made-up sentences,

njerezit jane duke mesuar me kontentin reale, i cili eshte me te vertet interesante.

people are learning with real content, which is inherently interesting.

Pra njerezit me te vertet mesojnje nje gjuhe.

So people really do learn a language.

Miporo ndoshta me surprizuese,

But perhaps more surprisingly,

perkthimi qe marrim nga njerezit duke perkthyer web-in

the translations that we get from people using the site,

even though they're just beginners,

madje edhe pse jan vetem fillestar,

the translations that we get

perkthimi qe ne marrim eshte aq i saket sikruse ai i marr nga ndonje perkthyer profesionale.

are as accurate as those of professional language translators,

i cili eshte shum suprizues.

which is very surprising.

pra me lejoni te marr nje shembull.

So let me show you one example.

This is a sentence that was translated from German into English.

Kjo eshte nje fjali e cila eshte perkthyer nga Gjermanishtja ne Anglisht.

Fillimi eshte Gjermanisht

The top is the German. The middle is an English translation

Mesi eshte perkthim ne Anglisht

that was done by a professional translator

kjo eshte kryer nga dikush qe ishte nje perkthyer profesional Englisht

who we paid 20 cents a word for this translation.

te cilin e paguam 20 cent per nje fjal per perkthim.

dhe ne fund eshte nje perkthim nga nje shfrytzues i Duolingo,

And the bottom is a translation by users of Duolingo,

qe nuk dinte asnje copez te Gjermanishtes

none of whom knew any German before they started using the site.

para se te fillonin te perdorin sajtin.

If you can see, it's pretty much perfect.

Mund ta shihni eshe shum perfekt.

Of course, we play a trick here

Tani sirusiht,ne bejme nje trik ketu

to make the translations as good as professional language translators.

per te bere perkthimin aq te mri sa nje perkthyer profesional mund te beje.

Ne i kombinojme disa perkthyes fillestare

We combine the translations of multiple beginners

per te fituar kualitetin e nje profesionalisti te vetem.

to get the quality of a single professional translator.

Now, even though we're combining the translations,

Tani edhe pese ne jemi duke i kombinuar keto perkthime,

the site actually can translate pretty fast.

sajti mundet te perkthej shum shpejt.

Ja t'ju tregoj,

So let me show you,

this is our estimates of how fast we could translate Wikipedia

kjo eshte perllogaritje se sa shpejt mundemi ta perkthejme Wikipedia-në

Nga Anglishtja ne Spanjollisht.

from English into Spanish.

Remember, this is 50 million dollars' worth of value.

Kujdoni, ky eshte 50 milion dollar vler

So if we wanted to translate Wikipedia into Spanish,

Pra nese deshirojme ta perkthejme Wikipedian ne Spanjollisht

mundemi ta bejme kete ne pese jave me 100,000 shfrytzues aktive

we could do it in five weeks with 100,000 active users.

dhe mundemi ta bejme kete me rreth 80 ore me 1 milion shfrytzues aktive

And we could do it in about 80 hours with a million active users.

Meqe te gjitha projektet qe grupi ime ka punuar deri me tani kan marrur mbi 100 milion shfrytzues

Since all the projects my group has worked on so far

have gotten millions of users,

jemi te kenaqur qe do te jemi ne gjendje ta perkthejme

we're hopeful that we'll be able to translate extremely fast.

ekstremisht shpejt me kete projekt.

Tani gjeja qe une jam i gezuar rreth Duolingo

Now, the thing that I'm most excited about with Duolingo

eshte se mendoj qe ne jep nje model te biznesit te drejt per edukimin gjuhesore.

is I think this provides a fair business model for language education.

Ja ku eshte gjeja:

So here's the thing:

Modeli i bizesit per edukimin gjuhesore

The current business model for language education

eshte studenti paguane,

is the student pays,

and in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone 500 dollars.

dhe ne pergjigjethsi studentet kan paguar Rosetta Stone 500 dollar.

(Qeshen)

(Laughter)

Ky eshte modeli i tanishum i binesit !

That's the current business model.

Problemi me modelin e biznesit eshte

The problem with this business model

se 95 perqind e popullsis botrore nuk ka 500 dollar.

is that 95 percent of the world's population doesn't have 500 dollars.

Pra nuk eshte e drejt per njerezit e varfer

So it's extremely unfair towards the poor.

Totalisht e drejt per te pasurit.

This is totally biased towards the rich.

Tashi me Duolingo,

Now, see, in Duolingo,

because while you learn, you're actually creating value,

gjersa ju jeni duke mesuar

ju faktikisht jeni duke krijuar vlera, ju jeni duke perkthyer gjera --

you're translating stuff --

which, for example, we could charge somebody for translations,

te cilat pershembull, ne mundemi ta ngrakojme dike per te perkthyer.

so this is how we could monetize this.

Pra kjo eshte menyra se si mund ta bejeme te gjith kete.

Since people are creating value while they're learning,

Meqe njerezit jane duke krijuar vlera dhe gjithashtu duke mesuar,

Ata nuk duhet te paguajne me parat e tyre, ata paguajne me kohen e tyre.

they don't have to pay with their money, they pay with their time.

Mirpo gjeja magjike ketu eshte sepse ata po paguajne me kohen e tyre,

But the magical thing here

is that is time that would have had to have been spent anyways

mirpo kjo eshte koha te cilen ata eshte dashur qe ta hargjojne sidoqoft

duke mesuar gjuhen.

learning the language.

So the nice thing about Duolingo

pra gjeja me e mire rreth Duolingo-it eshte sepse une mendoj se eshte nje model i biznesit te drejt --

is, I think, it provides a fair business model --

nje i cili nuk eshte diskriminues kunder njerezve te varfer.

one that doesn't discriminate against poor people.

Pra ketu eshte sajti. Faliminderit

So here's the site. Thank you.

(Duartrokitje)

(Applause)

Ketu eshte sajti.

We haven't yet launched,

Akoma nuk e kemi lansuar,

but if you go there, you can sign up to be part of our private beta,

mirpo nese shkon atje, mundesh te kyqesh te jesh pjes private e versioni te pa leshuar per publikun ( beta)

which is probably going to start in three or four weeks.

i cili do te filloj se shpejti besoj ne 3 apo kater jave.

Akoma nuk e kemi lancuar kete Duolingo.

We haven't yet launched it.

By the way, I'm the one talking here,

Me qe ra fjala.Une jam duke folur ketu,

but Duolingo is the work of a really awesome team,

faktikisht Duolingo eshte nje pune e mrekullueshme e nje ekimi shum te mir, ku pjes e saj jane edhe ketu.

some of whom are here. So thank you.

Pra faliminderit shume.

(Applause)

(Duartrokitje)