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Hipyan Nopri
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Judgment, Not Just Output, Is Our Lasting Value 11:58

I voted for contextual reasoning, cultural fluency, and evaluating output quality under ambiguity.

AI tools can now produce fluent translations in seconds, so speed alone is no longer a real advantage.

What these tools still struggle with is judgment: recognizing when a fluent sentence is subtly wrong, when a term carries different legal or cultural weight in the target context, or when ambiguity calls for an informed decision rather than a literal rendering.
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I voted for contextual reasoning, cultural fluency, and evaluating output quality under ambiguity.

AI tools can now produce fluent translations in seconds, so speed alone is no longer a real advantage.

What these tools still struggle with is judgment: recognizing when a fluent sentence is subtly wrong, when a term carries different legal or cultural weight in the target context, or when ambiguity calls for an informed decision rather than a literal rendering.

Technical tool mastery remains essential, but it is a baseline requirement rather than a differentiator.

Coding and machine learning may benefit those moving into technical roles, but they are not central to most language work.

In my view, our role is shifting from producing text to ensuring its accuracy and appropriateness, and that requires human judgment. ▲ Collapse


Agnes Fatrai
Marina Meier
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Geddy Sokolowsky
Maria Laura Curzi
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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angļu - portugāļu
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Other 17:30

However important technical tool mastery may be these days, nothing can replace a deep understanding of both the source and target languages, subject matter expertise, attention to detail, skilled writing, confidentiality and professionalism, among other skills we human translators have…

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Luis M. Sosa
 


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