OBJECTIVE 2024

OBJECTIVE 2024

SYMPOSIUM ON FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND TRANSLATION

International Society of Applied Psycho-Linguistics

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CAN WE HUMANIZE TRANSLATING MACHINES?

1- Machines, including translating machines, are never doing things the way human beings do. Machines imitate human beings by moving from a starting point to an endpoint, but the routes followed from one to the other are not at all the same, just bringing in the same ending.

2- Still and for some more unspecifiable time, machines are not able to extend, as Marshall McLuhan would say, the full human mind, human spirituality, human existential experience, and human rebellious creativity.

3- There cannot be any global come-together of humanity if everyone cannot access all that everyone else is doing.

4- We must understand the libraries of still today will disappear and be replaced by servers that will contain all the “knowledge” and “arts” and…