2 ms·
Have we replaced translators? Is there a single book translation that has been commercially published that was done by a machine? In diplomacy or negotiations d
by sgt101 8y ago
Have we replaced translators? Is there a single book translation that has been commercially published that was done by a machine? In diplomacy or negotiations does anyone dare to use a machine translator? I agree that for tourism and casual use machine translators are brilliant, but for the use cases where people needed to pay in the past do they not still pay a person?
- yorwba 8y agoThey need to pay a person, but that person can start with a machine-translated text and only needs to edit the parts where the machine failed. So the same amount of text can be translated using fewer translators. Although the machine can't do everything a human translator does, it can still partially replace them, just as technology has partially replaced humans before (think a dozen guys with shovels vs. one with an excavator).
- sgt101 8y agoWell - sorta in some use cases; my suspicion is that translators working in this way find most of what the machine can do marginal in value.