It is believed that within 50 years, artificial intelligence could end up being far more intelligent than humans, and in many ways render us obsolete. After all, the battle for dominance on earth has most recently revolved around intellectual awareness, reasoning and sentience.
But where do translations fit into this? Will online translators ever be able to do a better job than human language translators? It is of course a possibility, if you believe that machines will one day render the human conscience obsolete, but once that time comes, the chances are we will be not need such translations anyway since the world as we know it will be almost unimaginable to us now.
Right now, the very way in which the majority of online translators work means that it would be impossible for anyone to use them for coherent language translation of any length. Context, culture and structure are completely alien to such online applications and therefore even if certain sentences are bang on the money, the language translation as a whole would most likely end up being absolute nonsense.
Will this change as technology advances? If artificial intelligence advances in such a predicted way, it could very well be that machines make better language translators in the future, but such a leap would require such intelligence to have very human-like intellectual reasoning, something which is a very long way off from being a reality.
It may seem a strange question to pose, and unless people are considering the best way to source translated documents, it may seem a moot point. However, understanding when such a time might come is quite important as this ability to so effectively communicate with the human mind would likely be a turning point in the capability of machines. So in many ways, lets pray that humans will be doing our translations for a long time to come.
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