Machine translation – including live, voice-to-voice language conversion – is advancing rapidly, although interpreting meaning rather than just words and sentences remains a daunting task.
Machine translation is advancing fast enough that some think human translators will soon struggle for work. iStock
Vasco Pedro had always believed that, despite the rise of artificial intelligence, getting machines to translate languages as well as professional translators do would always need a human in the loop.
Then he saw the results of a competition run by his Lisbon-based start-up, Unbabel, pitting its latest AI model against the company’s human translators.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/technology/translators-tipped-to-be-replaced-by-ai-within-three-years-20241224-p5l0ky
