Translated, an Italian AI translation startup, has predicted that technology could achieve technological singularity within seven years.
In this case, the company defines singularity as when machine
translation reaches and/or surpasses the abilities of human translators
in the top languages around the world.
- Some experts define singularity as the moment when AI technology transcends human intelligence or when technological growth occurs on its own and can no longer be controlled.
- Translated believes that singularity is achieved when AI language translation is on par with human translators.
- In its prediction, Translated measured the rate of improvement of its translation algorithm's Time to Edit metric or the time it takes for a human editor to correct the algorithm's translations.
- Over
the past eight years, that data shows a linear trend, it says, meaning
machines could potentially achieve a "perfect translation" equivalent to
human translators sometime in 2030.
- In defense of its
measurements, the team said many AI experts believe the closest way to
producing artificial general intelligence is through this language
translation problem, as "natural language is by far the most complex
problem we have in AI."
