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The translator of the future is a human-machine hybrid
There will still be a place for humans with specialist knowledge
THIS FIRST paragraph can read a bit oddly. As an experiment, Johnson wrote it in English, and then ran it through Google Translate to turn it into French, before running it through the same process in reverse, to render it back to English.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Rise of the cyborgs”
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