In view of this, a list of questions comes easily to our minds: Where do we have opportunities ahead? What shall we tell to translation college graduates? Is translation offering job opportunities? What value can we provide to our clients when translation is readily available over the internet or, in the case of more sophisticated companies, available via a customized MT system? We periodically check how Google is doing on our main language pairs and it is learning fast! MT, including neural MT, keeps improving and the actual content in the web keeps growing. For certain language combinations such as English into Spanish or certain domains such as IT, the future is almost here.

Regarding translation (Amateur Translation): When AI will be able to perform translation about as good as a human who is fluent in both languages but unskilled at translation, for most types of text, and for most popular languages (including languages that are known to be difficult, like Czech, Chinese and Arabic)?īy the way, the forecasted timeframe is 2024, but this is for languages where MT (Machine Translation) has not yet reached an advanced stage.

The very same question they were asked gives a very useful tip of where opportunities lay for translation companies: Specifically, they asked: “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance?” They covered many areas, including translation.

A group of experts on artificial intelligence (AI) were asked about the future for some tasks currently performed by humans. A few weeks ago, Slator -the reference media for the translation industry-published a very interesting article on a paper by two recognized institutions: Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute and Yale’s Department of Political Science.

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