Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029 186
An anonymous reader writes "In a video interview with the Huffington Post, noted futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that machines will reach human levels of translation quality by the year 2029. However, he was quick to highlight that even major technological advances in translation do not replace the need for language learning. 'Even the best translators can't fully translate literature,' he pointed out. 'Some things just can't be expressed in another language.'"
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Re:Ray Kurzweil's predictions (Score:4, Informative)
Kurzweil is an eccentric charlatan who is making money off the gullible nerds who can't see through is bs. If anything he is a good manipulator.
People believe what they want to believe because it takes too much energy, talent and hard work to build sufficient knowledge to see through the bullshit. Most people who believe in that futurism have no background in any major scientific discipline related to his predictions what-so-ever. Big companies like Intel thought in the future we would have 10 Ghz processors unfortunately it turned out leakage and heat became a real issue and we get multi-core CPU's, more ghz may come back eventually but it will take new discoveries/processes that will likely take decades to complete. Sometimes technology gets stuck for a long time until solutions are found or something entirely different altogether emerges.