AI translation firm unveils ‘world-first’ timeline to singularity

An Italian company has unveiled a novel method of measuring AI progress: analyzing improvements in machine translation. Translated, a provider of translation services, used the approach to predict when we will achieve singularity, a vague concept often defined as the point where machines become smarter than humans. The Rome-based business sets this milestone at the moment when AI provides “a perfect translation.” According to the new research, this arrives when machine translation (MT) is better than top human translations. Translated’s analysis suggests this will happen before the end of the 2020s. “[It will be] within this decade, at least for…

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