Translation and Language Industry Observations
Translation and Language Industry Observations
by David Grunwald After spending about two weeks on the waitlist, I received yesterday an email from Microsoft saying You’re in! Welcome to the new Bing! Hurray! Naturally I started to tinker with it and wanted to share my first impressions. It only works in Microsoft Edge If you open up the new Bing in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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? 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 …
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 …
One of the most common questions that people in the translation industry are asked is: will Google Translate replace professional translators? The funny thing about this question is that it has been being asked for over 10 years at least. Does that mean that the question is stupid or that the answer is no? Well, …
Did you ever phone in to your bank or credit card company? Did you ever call the product support department at a huge tech company like Google or Microsoft? If you did, there is a good chance that your call was answered by a call center employee in a non-English speaking country like India or …
Have you ever tried to build a semantic core for a site at least once in your lifetime? Or create a competent content strategy? If the answer is yes, then you probably know how difficult it is, and how much information you need to process and take into account to get the right result. This …
Long past are the days when AI was a story created by Science fiction books and movies. Technological advancements in the field have made Artificial Intelligence a practical and valuable resource for the industry. Today, every industrial sector is integrating machine learning in their operations to improve efficiency and productivity. The applications of AI are …
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the next big thing in the world of technology. It is nothing less than a revolution in the field of modern software. As any piece of technology before, AI too has posed certain threats to the traditional industries and setups. One particular threat that we will be discussing today is whether …
I love Amsterdam. This was probably my fifth time there. Localization conferences I like a bit less and have not gone to one in years. But my love of Amsterdam outweighed any other consideration and I decided to attend the one day Slatorcon Amsterdam 2019 conference on November 28, 2019 which was produced by Slator. …
