December 5, 2024

An Italian firm has unveiled a novel methodology of measuring AI progress: analyzing enhancements in machine translation.

Translated, a supplier of translation providers, used the method to foretell after we will obtain singularity, a obscure idea typically outlined as the purpose the place machines turn out to be smarter than people.

The Rome-based enterprise units this milestone on the second when AI supplies “an ideal translation.” In accordance with the brand new analysis, this arrives when machine translation (MT) is best than high human translations.

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Translated’s evaluation suggests it will occur earlier than the top of the 2020s.

“[It will be] inside this decade, at the very least for the highest 10 languages in a context of common complexity,” Marco Trombetti, the corporate’s CEO, tells TNW. “The fact is that in some particular domains and in a couple of languages this has already occurred. For some uncommon languages and domains it could by no means come.”

Marco Trombetti is a computer scientist, serial entrepreneur, and investor. In 1999 he founded Translated, which pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in the world of translation and is now the industry leader.