Source BBC News · Published · Open the original ↗
Capability
How long will humans be needed for translation?
AI dominates the translation business, but for high-stakes work, humans are still needed.
"It's raining ropes," is the direct translation. It's the kind of idiom which can trip up an AI translator.
"You can imagine the dilemma this throws AI into," says François Yvon, a research director specialised in automatic translation with the French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS.
He says a well-trained system will know that ropes are not literally falling from the sky and use the English phrase "it's raining cats and dogs".
"But is it going to find the equivalent when it's translating into Indonesian?" asks Yvon.
The opening of the report, quoted unchanged from BBC News. The full text continues at the source.