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Seventy years after the first experiment with Machine Translation at Georgetown University, MT is no longer the holy grail (or the fear) of the translation industry. With GenAI ambitions have become much bigger. The bots create content in any language, answer all our questions, tell us what’s good and what’s false or faulty. MT programs that got fired up in recent years since the breakthrough of Neural MT are losing their funding or are being morphed into new AI programs. We are not here to solve a translation problem, we are here to change the world. The sky's the limit.

In this section we get an overview of the changing landscape from AI innovation executives from around the world.

Farewell MT. Welcome AI.

The research on Speech-to-speech translation (S2S) as a moonshot project was proposed by the Japanese government in 1986. Then, thanks to innovations by a bunch of researchers in the US, Europe and Asia made S2S for daily conversations possible through smartphones and other wearable devices. Now, S2S provides simultaneous interpretation for the business scene.