AI translation is now widely used, but the story shows humans are still needed for legal, medical and other high-stakes work where errors can be serious.
01Summary
- 01Google said in April that people now translate one trillion words a month with Google Translate.
- 02Direct sales of machine translation were estimated at $1.4bn (£1bn) last year.
- 03OKA says its AI-plus-human process has produced more than 10,000 translated Wikipedia articles, mostly in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
- 04A legal translator found AI had rendered ‘Le demandeur’ as ‘the requester’ and ‘Madame X, épouse Y’ as ‘Ms X marries Y’.
- 05A medical specialist warned that mistaking the Greek letter μ for milli instead of micro could mean a dose 1,000 times too large.
02Why it matters
The story shows that AI is cutting translation costs and changing the industry, but also that mistakes can affect legal cases, medical treatment and trust in published information. That makes human checking important in work where accuracy matters most.
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