Will Machine Translations Take Over?
Machine Translation, including such applications as Google Translate, have a pretty terrible reputation, and quite frankly, they do not work. I am not going to sit here and tell you that automation is not really a threat or that it won’t cut jobs, because it will, and anyone who says otherwise needs to get with the times.
This got me thinking after talking to friend of mine who is also a translator, will automation- in this case machine translation- one day take over and displace human translators?
My friend argued no, that machines can never always get the intricacies of language correct 100% of the time. All they are is a box of algorithms, which is a fair point.
He also talked about how applications such as Google Translate aren’t particularly accurate,something that anyone ...