Now and Then of Machine Translation: Crowdin's AI Localization Assistant • 5 min read
The first experiments with machine translation began in the 1950s. At that time, the technology was more like an automated dictionary.
Machine translation became more useful in the 90s when statistical machine translation was introduced. However, the translation quality was still far from human translation.
In 2010, when Google introduced Neural Machine Translation, things changed. Machine translation became a useful tool, which in many cases, influenced both the work of professional translators and clients' budgets.
Now, AI is actively searching for its place within all industries, and localization is no exception. Let's see how you can run AI pre-translation and the potential of AI in localization.