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Translation ex machina
There's a lot of hullabaloo surrounding the topic of machine translation. A few months ago, Wired ran a feature on the challenge of translation (for the machine as well as the human mind), highlighting some of the advancements currently being made in machine translation. The jury is still out on whether machines will ever be able to match the human ability to translate languages, but it seems that they're certainly getting closer.
The real question is, can you tell the difference between a human and a machine? Or, more specifically, can you tell the difference between the writings of 20th century Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner and an unedited machine translation of a German text? Test yourself here. (SUZANNE)
May 11, 2007
