Every tech trend has consultants on the forefront cashing in. Most of these companies have rebranded their existing strategic/digital transformation arms as AI transformation.
I wanted to offer free “machine learning” consultancy to jobs that are most endangered to be replaced/affected by it.
Starting probably with translators and marketing writers - my prediction is that most will use machine learning tools to speed up their work and those who fail to adopt them will be pushed out long-term.
I still feel there will be a human in the loop for a long time, just accelerated with these tools.
Fair enough, but since I’m still starting out and unsure about the value of it, it would t feel right to charge at this point.
If it proves to be valuable of course I’d charge otherwise it wouldn’t be sustainable
When I was still doing translations I often had to correct some 'translation' done by a jr that was clearly just passed through google translate. It was horrible and a big reason I left.
That was several years ago. I have used gpt4 for translations and it works great. You can even ask for style tweaks and I barely need to change anything.
Yea I had a similar experience.
I feel translator are mostly going to be employed for the harder translation jobs like creative writing or legal text in the near future
I hire a translator not for doing the actual translating, but more so for the validation and accountability. Unless I personally can speak a language, I can't verify the GPT or whatever actually translated it properly.
I honestly think translator is a dying profession. Reviewers will still be necessary, but LLMs are great at very nuanced translation. The whole structure is already there, it only has to map onto another language.
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