AI аnd Machine Translation Post-editing: Advancements and Challenges (Insights for Students of International Studies)

Abstract

Now, with the appearance of the latest wave of a sophisticated generative artificial intelligence (AI), humanity is about to embark on an entirely new functioning order. The challenge today is that due to AI the world will definitely undergo drastic metamorphosis tomorrow, and again the day after. To adapt to this reinvented economy, people will need to reinvent their skills, careers – and, indeed, their lives. Therefore, educating people for reinvention in this fluid context will require the reinvention of higher education itself. According to Joseph E. Aoun, taking into consideration the targets to be met in the nearest future, the next generation of HEI students are supposed to be educated to invent, to create, and to discover – to meet society’s targets that any most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot, consequently, a curriculum should include technological literacy, or understanding how machines work and how to work with them. Furthermore, the emergence of cognitive translation studies has stipulated an interdisciplinary approach to delve into the cognitive and behavioural aspects of a broad array of cross-language activities including all kinds of translation and interpreting. In a world that relentlessly pursues efficiency and productivity, the figure of a post-editor, a professional translator who has the skills to add that necessary human touch to a text which has previously been subjected to software algorithms, has become more prominent.