Going back to the myth of Babel, the fragmentation of language is what gave rise to diverse cultures it’s hard to say that there’s one truly “human” culture that allows us full, perfect understanding of each other. But that imperfection, and how we navigate that imperfection, that makes us human, and makes translators such an important agent in the affairs of the world.
Machine translation has access to a vast range of information about language, but not human experience. It is unable to process culture, so its access to the full possibilities of human communication remains limited. As such, this might be the final frontier to be breached before achieving the translation singularity.
A post-language world would, after all, probably need oman mobile database new, post-language solutions. Only it’s hard to imagine what those would be in the present time.
There may very well be a day where there will be no human translators. But before this day, there will also be no human drivers, and no human lawyers, doctors and programmers. Communication between human beings is one of the most challenging tasks to tackle for AI, and other kinds of professionals will become obsolete before translators do. As such, translators will still be needed for quite a long time.