Month: September 2026

A world of Machine Translation? Part II

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

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,...

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