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Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-no-klingon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a video interview with the Huffington Post, noted futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that machines will reach human levels of translation quality by the year 2029. However, he was quick to highlight that even major technological advances in translation do not replace the need for language learning. 'Even the best translators can't fully translate literature,' he pointed out. 'Some things just can't be expressed in another language.'"

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  1. Re:Ray Kurzweil's predictions by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't tech futurists find a better spokesman than Ray Kurzweil?

    I predict that in 2029 computers will surpass Ray Kurzweil in making overly optimistic predictions. :-)

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  2. And the machine goes ... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

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