Friday 8 June 2018

Computers will make interpreters obsolete, lord chief predicts


8 June 2018

Computers will make interpreters obsolete, lord chief predicts
Simultaneous translation by computers will put courtroom interpreters out of a job ‘within a few years’ the lord chief justice has said in an upbeat assessment on the potential of technology. Delivering the Sir Henry Brooke Annual Lecture on ‘the age of reform’ Lord Burnett of Maldon described artificial intelligence as the 'transformative technology of our age’ which would drive change in the justice system long after the current controversial reform programme ends in five years. […]

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