Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: Google Translate results not visible
Poster: Katalin Szilárd
Post title: The future could be harsh not me ...
[quote]Elif Baykara Narbay wrote:
[quote]Katalin Szilárd wrote:
Maybe these systems are "checking" whether somebody is able to translate by his/her own? ;) :-D
[Edited at 2018-09-26 09:10 GMT] [/quote]
Well, that was harsh.
People have the right to like or dislike machine translation (and related tools). But this forum is about support and specifically, this thread is about the need for support regarding the MT plug-ins. Your comment, on the other hand, seems like MT-shaming (and maybe also shaming people who use MT??).
Elif
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Hi Elif,
It is not harsh at all. And my intention was not shaming. But a kind of warning.
People who are helping MT to make better and better results contribute to a very chaotic world of translation. Also who are using MT, sooner or later will rely on it so much, they will forget how to translate. It will make human brain lazy and soon a very good translator will be able to provide only a medium quality by his/her own, later the quality of his/her translation that she/he could provide without MT will deteriorate very quickly.
We still talk about translators here.
And what if that big MT data that was done by translators will not be accessible once and a company needs a document to be translated? And there will be nobody any more who can translate it.
We need human brain. We need to use our brain.
Bests,
Katalin
[Edited at 2018-09-28 20:24 GMT]