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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question ""The future isn’t about machines taking over. It’s about knowing where humans shine most."".
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The future isn’t about machines taking over; it’s about how we use them. Machines lack the soul, the spark, the passion, the messy humanity that moves us in a messy world.
| | | | | The future is in your hands | Aug 13, 2025 |
I believe the story might be similar to the computer PC, where some people believed it will make people unemployed, but what actually happened was that it created more jobs and more opportunities.
| | | | Philip Lees 
Гърция
Local time: 08:48
Гръцки на Английски
I agree with the first sentence, but I disagree with the second.
Knowing where humans shine most isn't going to help us, in the face of an ever worsening climate crisis, the stagnation and incipient collapse of the capitalist system, and growing numbers of people who seem all too willing to believe the lies of despots, rather than look at the evidence and think for themselves.
Sorry to be so pessimistic, but look at the world news headlines today and tell me you disagre... See more I agree with the first sentence, but I disagree with the second.
Knowing where humans shine most isn't going to help us, in the face of an ever worsening climate crisis, the stagnation and incipient collapse of the capitalist system, and growing numbers of people who seem all too willing to believe the lies of despots, rather than look at the evidence and think for themselves.
Sorry to be so pessimistic, but look at the world news headlines today and tell me you disagree. ▲ Collapse
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CasaPhil
Испания
Local time: 07:48
Член
Английски на Френски
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| I know where humans shine most: | Aug 13, 2025 |
Annotating images and trains of thought and reasoning steps and art work so that machines can mimick human behaviours and make us think they can be our friends.
Machines have already taken over, I can no longer speak to anything organic on a helpline!
Philippe
| | | | Denis Danchenko (X)
Украйна
Английски на Russian
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| Mario Chávez
Съединени американски щати
Local time: 01:48
Английски на Испански
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| Soundbyte II | Aug 13, 2025 |
Another regurgitated slogan passing for profound thought after consuming millions of pages of marketing trash.
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Another slow month like this one and I'll have to shine again at bartending...
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Alex Lichanow
Германия
Local time: 07:48
Английски на Немски
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Your AI is spouting empty phrases, you might want to look into that.
| | | | Luca Adie
Германия
Local time: 07:48
Немски на Английски
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There's something funny about the second sentence - we already know where humans shine; in between the realms of the unknown and known, which machines will never be able to capture.
Will there come a time when machines write, truly write, poetry that identifies with the human soul? I think not!
Happy translatoring!
| | | | Zea_Mays
Италия
Local time: 07:48
Английски на Немски
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| Phrase is from an RWS advertorial (and also this poll title is probably advertising) | Aug 13, 2025 |
So no suprise there's 'AI magic' involved again. This narrative is mostly perpetuated by AI firms and the translation agencies to which the former sell their costly bot subscriptions.
It's no coincidence that no translators are propagating it.
Always ask: Cui prodest?
| | | | Denis Fesik
Local time: 08:48
Английски на Russian
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| Or maybe there'll come a time... | Aug 13, 2025 |
ADIE Translations wrote:
Will there come a time when machines write, truly write, poetry that identifies with the human soul? I think not
... when humans begin to thoroughly enjoy the kind of poetry written by machines. Isn't that what the orchestrators have in mind? Also, the poetry that targets you will be written in your own language with no translation involved—if anyone at that time even wants poetry in the first place.
Looking at it from my belfry (i. e. my point of view), I can't believe such a prospect is realistic, but I'm also not that young and avoid plunging into tech head first (including AI, which I've been giving a wide berth so far). It is quite likely, however, that my personal ways to do translation will be out of demand soon. I'm not bothered: today's labor market has many jobs, including those I can easily switch to. Machines won't be able to take away all those jobs in the near future because they can't have infinite energy
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Samuel Murray
Нидерландия
Local time: 07:48
Член (2006)
Английски на Африкаанс
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| My title summarizes my main point | Aug 13, 2025 |
Zea_Mays wrote:
Phrase is from an RWS advertorial (and also this poll title is probably advertising).
Yes, it's from a sponsored podcast by RWS (whose speaker is not a translator but is eager to tell translators how to do their jobs better) and Terra Localizations (whose speaker works in a field of extreme creative language). The RWS speaker gushes about how AI will help with the "repetitive" tasks in translation, but humans are needed for the creative parts. I can understand that a non-translator might think these things. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but AI is actually rather bad at repetitive stuff, and is getting quite good at the creative stuff.
https://multilingual.com/charting-new-territory-in-language-services-with-ai/
| | | | | Boost the hype | Aug 13, 2025 |
Philippe Etienne wrote:
Machines have already taken over, I can no longer speak to anything organic on a helpline!
Philippe
Samuel Murray wrote:
Zea_Mays wrote:
Phrase is from an RWS advertorial (and also this poll title is probably advertising).
Yes, it's from a sponsored podcast by RWS (whose speaker is not a translator but is eager to tell translators how to do their jobs better) and Terra Localizations (whose speaker works in a field of extreme creative language). The RWS speaker gushes about how AI will help with the "repetitive" tasks in translation, but humans are needed for the creative parts. I can understand that a non-translator might think these things. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but AI is actually rather bad at repetitive stuff, and is getting quite good at the creative stuff.
https://multilingual.com/charting-new-territory-in-language-services-with-ai/
More AI hype, all these humans investing their time to try to convince the whole world about how great AI is, when the whole world already knows for a fact that AI chatbots can't handle simple phone customer support:
https://solusian.com/blogs/artificial-intelligence/why-do-chatbots-fail-the-hidden-truth-behind-customer-service-disasters
“Gartner's data shows that companies abandoned 40% of their first-generation chatbots within two years. The root cause runs deep - 81% of businesses find it challenging to train their AI systems with quality data.”
“Most chatbots lack the ability to understand human communication nuances.”
IMHO, the future of AI translation won't be so different; that's why the humans who work for tech moguls make such an exhausting effort to boost the hype.
| | | | Liena V.
Латвия
Local time: 08:48
Член (2014)
Френски на Латвийски
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Maria Laura Curzi wrote:
“Most chatbots lack the ability to understand human communication nuances.”
But at least they have manners: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EeNEQpyuOxo I'm sure that counts for something, even when they aren't helpful?
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