A world of machine translation? Part III
Originally written in 2007, long before the current Artificial Intelligence boom, this post explores the future of professional translators in the face of automation. In this final part of the series, we look back at these remarkably prescient predictions and how machine translation was expected to impact various specialities, from sworn to literary translation.
A world of Machine Translation? Part II
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify Suppose the unstoppable regression of our culture, the increasing dumbing down of humanity, was due to a deliberate plot to fritter away, among other shared heritage, our linguistic wealth? We can’t ignore the fact that, as has been happening in other fields since the...
A world of Machine Translation? Part II
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify Suppose the unstoppable regression of our culture, the increasing dumbing down of humanity, was due to a deliberate plot to fritter away, among other shared heritage, our linguistic wealth? We can’t ignore the fact that, as has been happening in other fields since the...
A world of Machine Translation? Part I
The Prophesy Almost half the human professions, as we know them today, will have disappeared by 2050 as a result of task automation in developed economies. This Keynesian prediction, quantified by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne’s famous study on the jobs most susceptible to computerisation and corroborated by other economists,...