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Using AI to get ahead – Part I.

Many people seem to be afraid of AI. The most extreme scenarios detail a world where AI-powered robots will launch a military attack against humans and engage in genocide. Other much less scary scenarios envision massive reduction of jobs, as human employees will be replaced by software. This technology is gaining the attention of governments, …

Will ChatGPT Eliminate Translation Jobs?

by David Grunwald Jobs across numerous fields could be replaced, according to the company ChatGPT. The tech company, which has sparked debate in recent months, said it could “potentially replace jobs that involve written communication,” such as translation services and social media managers. (Yahoo Finance) In a recent interview, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna stated that A.I. …

At the End of the Day, it’s All About Online Search

by David Grunwald The marketing people at Microsoft scored a major coup earlier this month. In a brilliant move, they managed to breathe new life into a failed product. They also spooked their main competitor into making a marketing fiasco, and unnerved their competitor’s stockholders to a point where the stock lost over 10% in …

Will Bing change the way people search online for translation services?

The web is abuzz with the changing tides in the search engine world. On February 8, 2023 Google lost over 7% in market value (to the tune of $100 billion) after its newly introduced chatbot Bard messed up the answer to a simple question. On February 8, 2023, the stock lost nearly 5% more for a …

What is ChatGPT and what it means to the translation industry?

by David Grunwald What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI. It is a conversational AI model trained on a large corpus of text data to generate human-like responses to text inputs. ChatGPT is capable of answering questions, generating text, translating languages, and performing a wide range of language-related tasks. It …

Understanding Social Language, Neurodiversity and Translation

by Luke Smith It’s estimated that 15 to 20% of the world’s population is neurodiverse. That simply means that this subset of people thinks differently than what is considered “normal.” Their brains think things through and process information differently. For some, it’s a more obvious difference than others. While there is nothing “wrong” with being …

What is an unwritten language and how can AI help translate it?

What is an unwritten language? Simply put, it is a language that is spoken but not written, and therefore has no written form by native speakers of that language. Unwritten languages by their very nature are obscure, and used by very few people. Spain for example has some dialects which are spoken by precious few …

What is Metaverse and what does it have to do with translation?

Metaverse is a compound term made from the words Meta (or Beyond) and Universe. The term first appears in Neil Stevenson’s Sci-Fi novel Snow Crash (1992) and has since been adopted by the tech industry. It refers to a theoretical, futuristic vision of the Internet as a place where people will spend their time in …

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