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Not yet, translators argue
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Ariella Baltié is a translator and legal expert specialised in translating court documents from English into French.
Key facts
- Direct sales of machine translation, external (i.e. outside general AI subscriptions) were worth an estimated $1.4bn (£1bn) last year
- 27% of the AI-generated text still got corrected before publication
- You can imagine the dilemma this throws AI into," says François Yvon, a research director specialised in automatic translation with the French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS
- In April, Google said people are now translating, external one trillion words a month with Google Translate
Summary
"Il pleut des cordes," say the French when it's raining hard. "It's raining ropes," is the direct translation. "You can imagine the dilemma this throws AI into," says François Yvon, a research director specialised in automatic translation with the French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS. He says a well-trained system will know that ropes are not falling from the sky and use the English phrase "it's raining cats and dogs". "But is it going to find the equivalent when it's translating into Indonesian?