In recent years, technology has made superlative leaps forward. We realise this every day through the devices and online resources we can rely on for increasingly diverse needs.
In the translation industry, the presence of artificial intelligence has also increased in tandem. This new wave of technology has triggered both favourable and unfavourable moods, as is usual for any kind of innovation at the dawn of its introduction.
While it is true that services such as Google translate merely translate literally without taking context into account, progress in this field has given rise to so-called NMTs (neural machine translation), which instead compensate for this limitation by being able to provide higher quality translations.
So will the profession of translator soon be forgotten and abandoned? Definitely not.
Artificial intelligence will be a real ally for us translators, but it will never be reliable enough to independently translate strictly technical subjects such as those in the fields of medicine, economics, law or marketing, where even the slightest inaccuracy could lead to irreparable damage. This is why the figure of the translator is crucial to ensure the utmost accuracy of everything that is written or said. For all your problems, always rely on professionals, their trade is undoubtedly what is best for you.
