Across GP surgeries and hospitals, as migration increases and health systems strain, doctors are turning to an untested helper: Google Translate.
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Nearly 20 years after it was launched, machine translation is still a long way from replacing translators.
AI-powered technology means it has never been easier to translate between two languages. But that doesn’t mean we should give up on learning another tongue. The benefits still outweigh the effort.
Machine translation can seem alarmingly good – but it’s still no substitute for human language knowledge.
Even the Oxford English Dictionary contains traces of sexism – it’s little wonder that our translation tools do too.
Artificial Intelligence can perpetuate existing social imbalances in a harmful manner. Can this undesirable scenario be avoided?
Having problems with Siri and Google Translate? Here’s why.
Time to chuck out the phrase books?
Does the upcoming launch of wireless headphones by Google that feature real-time language translation mean we don’t need to study other languages anymore?
Auto-translation software has been pretty frustrating to use. But news of vast improvements to Google’s translation software raises the prospect that websites will soon be browsable in any language.
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