What other creative professions can learn from translation about the effects of artificial intelligence

Episode 40 • February 21, 2023 • 00:15:40
What other creative professions can learn from translation about the effects of artificial intelligence
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What other creative professions can learn from translation about the effects of artificial intelligence

Feb 21 2023 | 00:15:40

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Eddie Arrieta

Show Notes

This same technology that enabled neural machine translation to improve machine translation is now finding its way into seemingly unrelated products (think ChatGPT or Dall·E). The translation “problem” has not been solved with the latest advancements in NMT, but there are lessons to be learned in other professions from how the professional translation community has been affected by and adapted to the widespread use of NMT both by translators and by end users.

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