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The Spanish-language legal figure of amparo is usually left untranslated,…
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“Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art”, by Ted Chiang </h2 > Article Review Ted Chiang, one of the…
In his article, "The False Promise of ChatGPT," the eminent linguist Noam Chomsky critiques AI technology, emphasizing its limitations in…
Emily M. Bender is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington in the US who specializes in Computational…
In a recent LinkedIn post, Miryam Seers, a lawyer-linguist and Chair of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, highlighted a rather…
Transcription – the rendering of speech into writing – might seem fairly straightforward. We can all conjure the image of…
The purpose of legal transcription is to endow instances of speech –ranging from court proceedings, through corporate meetings, to private…
Sophie Hughes is a literary translator who works chiefly from Spanish into English...
Non-consensual Translation A French client recently got in touch with us with some concern. They reported having taken a look…
The Psychology of Reply-All Reply-All is an email feature that often provokes strong emotions. On the one hand, it lends…
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The stochastic parrot is the invention of linguist Emily Bender – the creator of another memorable fictional animal, the Statistical…
The linguist Emily Bender has recently given another illustration of the way AI cannot grasp meaning.
Alan Turing, one of the pioneer theoreticians of computing, proposed what is now known as the Turing Test: if a…
It is often claimed that Artificial Intelligence is making such spectacularly rapid progress that all its current problems will soon…
