While new technologies will keep evolving, core human abilities such as cultural understanding, creativity, subject matter expertise, and ethical judgment remain essential in language services. By embracing AI as a tool, mastering new workflows, specializing [...]
No. AI is not reducing the overall volume of work in the translation industry; rather, it is shifting where value is delivered while driving exponential growth in the amount of content that needs to be [...]
No. While AI continues to improve, model capabilities are plateauing and converging. Under the current technological paradigm, AI remains constrained by the datasets on which it was trained and defaults to the mean. That prevents [...]
No, using AI will not train it to replace your job as a translator. Generative AI models are trained on extensive existing data, not on your individual interactions with the system. Your use of AI [...]
Relying on AI in human-devaluing workflows can cause "de-skilling." In those workflows, translators become passive reviewers (aka "human in the loop") instead of active experts (aka "human in command"), or worse, feed texts through AI [...]
Besides translating text, AI can help translators with advanced terminology research, editing and stylistic refinement, extracting information and summarizing large documents, solving technical problems like processing messy text, drafting emails and marketing content, ensuring quality [...]
AI translation delivers impressive results overall, but quality varies. That variation does not come from inherent differences in language difficulty, though. AI is "language agnostic" and does not internalize labelled languages or treat each one [...]
Many people get frustrated with AI translation because they end up fixing repetitive mistakes in workflows built for a passive, segment-by-segment approach. Those workflows put the machine first and you second, ignoring the larger context [...]
Yes, generative AI works intuitively with everyday language. If you have mastered your word processor, a CAT tool, or email, you can learn to use generative AI. In other words, beginner translators, those nearing retirement, [...]
Relying on built-in AI features in CAT tools may seem easy, but they are limited to basic, segment-by-segment processing and miss out on AI’s full potential. Besides, most built-in AI tools are designed by the [...]
