The Future does not need Translators. Or does it?How near are we to the point in time that machines will be better at translating most content?

• The point is already there:

Machines are translating today probably around 100 times what

human translators are doing.

• “Super-Human” machine abilities• Proven in Vision

• Proven in Speech Recognition for very specific tasks

• Proven by DeepMind in for the Game of Go• Needed creativity, strategy, overall

situation analysis

• Why not for “translation”?

Human translators vs. or w/ Machine

Project Analysis

Project Planning & Evaluation

Project Execution

Project Monitoring

Project Finalization

Translation or Post-Editing

Editing/Reviewing

Proofreading

DTP

With Great Power Comes Great ResponsibilitiesNew opportunities coming from deep learning

• From Translation to Post-edit to automatic Post-editing of Human Translation• Translation Assistant

• From Machine Translation to Transcreation• Through concept of “thought vector”

• For even more advanced use that we can not even anticipate