Linguistic AI struggles with analogies, a key aspect of human translation

Learning Without Analogies: Why Linguistic AI Struggles Where Human Linguists Excel

What do human linguists have that linguistic AI doesn’t? No longer a question just for the localization industry and machine translation, how well AI can replace people in communications is a shifting story in the world at large, and often a sensationalist one. A long view of developments suggests the true answer to what AI lacks is much more elusive than any one type of computational power, but the search for a specific mechanism is important not only to computer science but also psychology and biology today, as discovery continues […]

Linguistic AI has powerful applications for medical research.

Linguistic AI in Medical Research: New Horizons for Microsoft’s GPT-3

In our ongoing exploration of linguistic AI, how close to life the creations of a neural network can come is a persistent question for both machine translation and more experimental fields like natural language generation (NLG), simply in terms of whether any living person would communicate the way these machines do. But as algorithms like […]

New Hurdles in Language AI: Satire, Wit, and Song

For anyone who thought we had reached it, language AI seems not to have a ceiling in 2021, with news this week of even more powerful models than GPT-3 and new applications of the former suggesting it could be a vital link to general artificial intelligence (the hypothetical AI of all things). GPT-3 is a […]

Mental Health Awareness Month: A look at the unexpected ways AI is helping

Mental Health Awareness: Language AI Helps Bipolar Disorder Outcomes

As CSOFT observes Mental Health Awareness Month this May, developments in language AI that are rapidly changing the possibilities of mental health care make a fitting topic for our continued exploration of the many ways AI is changing the communications landscape across fields and industries. At this time for recognizing an aspect of health that […]

CSOFT’s Coffee and Conversations Podcast: Exploring Patient Diversity

CSOFT is excited to announce the launch of our Coffee and Conversations podcast! CSOFT International and CSOFT Health Sciences are so excited to produce a podcast where listeners can tune in to learn more about the life sciences and language services industry. Featuring experts from a diverse range of industries and fields, we hope the […]

Chemical translations needed for green technologies

Earth Day: CSOFT’s Chemical Translations for Green Technologies

Chemical translations may not sound like an obvious tool needed for environmental sustainability, but in fact, they are a key requirement for the advancement of green industries worldwide. Every year on April 22nd, CSOFT commemorates Earth Day. Reflecting on this year’s theme, ‘Restore the Planet’, CSOFT understands the importance of environmental responsibility and corporate sustainability […]

MT vs. GPT-3: two very different versions of what language AI can be

MT vs. GPT-3: Contrasting Profiles in Language AI

As MT (machine translation) continues to advance year on year, it is a fine time to take note of the kinds of breakthroughs we can be glad it is not making. As recently hyped breakthroughs in language AI continue to evolve, text generation models like GPT-3 are raising renewed commotion this week as recognition grows […]

Scientific translations: vital to antibiotic drug design

The Changing Realm of Scientific Communications: AI Tackles Antibiotic Drug Design

As doctors and researchers develop new antimicrobial substances that can be applied in health care solutions, scientific translations are vital to making these discoveries accessible in global settings. What if it was not doctors and researchers, though, and instead an artificial intelligence generating these kinds of insights? If the answer has to do with where […]

Celebrating International Women’s Day with CSOFT CEO Shunee Yee: Reflecting on a Challenging Year

As a business leader, and a devoted mother and daughter, Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day are very important to CSOFT CEO and Founder Ms. Shunee Yee, as well as to the CSOFT Family. Last year, we sat down with Shunee to ask her a few questions based on her background and interest in both empowering women as well as improving global health through cross-border communications. Notably, her […]

Sustainable Car Industry with Green Car Localization

Why Green Vehicle Localization is Necessary in the Race to Green the Car Industry

Green vehicle localization will be key to reducing global carbon emissions and greening the car industry. Governments worldwide are setting targets to reduce carbon emissions substantially by 2050 and greening the car industry will require collective global localization and translation efforts. Responding to public pressure and scientific research, the UK, China, and Japan, as well […]

Look at how far subtitle translation has come!

Video Localization: The Importance of Subtitling and Dubbing in the Film Industry

Have you ever looked at the options available on your TV remote and wondered just how important subtitle translation really is? During the 2020 Academy Awards, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, a South Korean black comedy thriller that stars a Korean family challenging societal expectations, made history as the first non-English speaking film to win Best […]

MT, NMT, and MTPE in the Age of Natural Language Processing

When trying to understand the distinction between technology-driven translation solutions like machine translation (MT) and neural machine translation (NMT), it can be tempting to seek simpler analogies from beyond the realm of technology. Increasingly, though, parsing the respective advantages of these solutions requires an awareness of distinctions in machine learning and artificial intelligence that will […]