How long will humans be needed for translation?
Summary
AI translation services like Google Translate now handle about one trillion words each month. While AI translations are often good enough for many uses, human checking is still important for sensitive areas like legal and medical documents.Key Facts
- Google Translate processes an estimated one trillion words per month.
- Machine translation services made about $1.4 billion in direct sales last year.
- AI is commonly used to draft translations, but humans usually check the results.
- AI translations have improved so much that sometimes human review may be skipped.
- Mistakes in AI translations can be serious, especially in legal and medical documents.
- For example, AI mistranslated a French legal term "le demandeur" as "the requester," which is incorrect.
- Errors in machine-translated asylum applications in the US have caused delays for detainees.
- Human translators are still needed to ensure accuracy in high-stakes translation work.
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