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Why put a human face on a robot?
Thread poster: Reea-Silvia Podeanu
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Ah, yes. Feb 23, 2022

Matthias Brombach wrote:

Apart from the artistic point of view you focus so much on, our (your) remaining task in MTPE still will be to be the person to legally blame for at the end of the chain...

...It always needs a translator, who truly understands the source and who has to be fully responsible for the target.


I seem to recall an argument (maybe here on ProZ, maybe on other sites... I can't remember) about companies that would still need human translators to serve as their scapegoats if something went wrong.

[Edited at 2022-02-23 14:53 GMT]

Matthias Brombach
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A useful robot Feb 23, 2022

It lift heavy boxes, so that humans can focus on other things:

https://youtu.be/uhND7Mvp3f4

Please note that, in this video, it is the human who is rude. And quite extrordinarily, the robot ignores this rudeness and focuses on the task.

Don't you find the beginning is rather entertaining?

Back to the topic: machine translation.

It is imperfect,... See more
It lift heavy boxes, so that humans can focus on other things:

https://youtu.be/uhND7Mvp3f4

Please note that, in this video, it is the human who is rude. And quite extrordinarily, the robot ignores this rudeness and focuses on the task.

Don't you find the beginning is rather entertaining?

Back to the topic: machine translation.

It is imperfect, it always will. It is translation without thinking.

Still, there are circumstances where it can be valuable. Translators, if they so wish, can profit, too, if they work in a smart way.

Please don't put a human face on machine translation. This is rather stupid and it hurts us all. If you choose to do post-editing (TAUS terminology), do what you are expected to do. Nothing more, nothing less. ▲ Collapse


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Perfect. Feb 23, 2022

Mihai Badea wrote:

It is translation without thinking.



Perfect.

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