Throughout history, communication has been a crucial component of all aspects of human endeavor. From business and diplomacy to technology in more recent times, the ability to express and understand ...

Vasco Pedro had always believed that, despite the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), getting machines to translate languages as well as professional translators do would always need a human in the ...

When Google Translate was released, in 2006, I was an eighth grader stumbling through introductory Spanish, and my teacher had little reason to worry about her students using it to cheat. It’s almost ...

The Department of Justice recently issued guidance encouraging federal agencies to use “artificial intelligence and machine translation to communicate with individuals who are limited English ...

In collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara, researchers at the Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence Lab have uncovered a substantial prevalence of faulty machine ...

On 30 September, the feast of St. Jerome—a translator of the Bible and patron saint of translators—the translation community celebrates International Translation Day (ITD). Each year since 1991, the ...

Adam Lopez previously received funding from Google in 2015. The computer scientists Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto have been recognised for a long track record of influential ideas with this year’s ...

On Thursday, Dow Jones Newswires launched a new AI language service in French, allowing readers to access automated translations of breaking financial and investment news in real time. The new service ...