My brother (in his late-fifties) is a polyglot employed at a major European bank as a translator. He had remarked to me, about a year ago, that he figured that the job of translator would no longer exist in 15 years.
But one month ago, when he saw what happened to Google Translate, he called me up and said, "I was wrong. If I'm honest, I'm only needed to do cursory reviews of translations. I've been made as redundant as the carriage driver or the switchboard operator."
Assuming the story is truthful, this is amazing. I wonder how well Translate works on older/more technical language, like the many scientific articles published only in German in the first half of the 20th century. This weekend I may well see for myself.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 19.7 ms ] threadMy brother (in his late-fifties) is a polyglot employed at a major European bank as a translator. He had remarked to me, about a year ago, that he figured that the job of translator would no longer exist in 15 years.
But one month ago, when he saw what happened to Google Translate, he called me up and said, "I was wrong. If I'm honest, I'm only needed to do cursory reviews of translations. I've been made as redundant as the carriage driver or the switchboard operator."
Assuming the story is truthful, this is amazing. I wonder how well Translate works on older/more technical language, like the many scientific articles published only in German in the first half of the 20th century. This weekend I may well see for myself.
^that just went live... what a time to live!