The first thing I would like for everyone to do is stop using terms like “hallucinating” or “thinking” to describe what ChatGPT is doing. The anthropomorphic language used to describe computers is misleading at best. Instead of “hallucinating” you can say “producing random words” or “gibberish.” For “thinking,” you can say “crunching numbers.” Please? I […]
Here is some vital information for anyone needing interpreters: they are usually booked months in advance, and most interpreting agencies will not accept urgent requests. Case Study 1 We are currently working on a project for a heavy equipment manufacturer who contacted us requesting no fewer than four interpreters for an event that will take
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The Battle of Translator vs. AI How Does Honyaku Plus Stack Up? The consultant looked concerned. “Is Google Translate a threat to Honyaku Plus?” I laughed out loud. I couldn’t help it. “Have you ever used Google Translate?” I asked. It was 2012. We were looking over Honyaku Plus’s SWOT analysis. Google Translate had been
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The ＃1 way to tell a good translation To tell a good translation from a bad one, ask yourself this: Does it read naturally? The road to translation hell is paved with slavish adherence to the source text Some translators follow a word-for-word approach in which every word of the original text has a corresponding
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To say “no two translations are alike” is an exaggeration, but this is not too far from the truth.
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