1、Understanding LLMs and generative AIBudapest,14 June 2024and their effect now and in the future on translation and localizationJay MarcianoPresident,Association for Machine Translation in the Americasand on nearly everything else,tooIntroductionsJay MarcianoPresident of AMTA(Association of Machine T
2、ranslation in the Americas)26 years experience in the development&application of MTAnd another decade of experience in publishing and teaching Avowed language geek on a mission to increase understanding,cooperation,and collaboration among translators and interpreters,MT researchers and developers,la
3、nguage service companies,and customersWe shape our buildings,and afterwards our buildings shape us.Winston ChurchillWhat is intelligence?The ability to acquire,understand,and use knowledge.The American Heritage DictionaryWhat does artificial mean?Made by humans,especially in imitation of something n
4、atural.Middle English,from Old French,from Latin artificilis,belonging to art,from artificium,craftsmanship;from artifex,artific-,craftsman:ars,art,+-fex,maker.The American Heritage DictionaryWhat is Artificial Intelligence?The ability of a computer or other machine to perform activities that are no
5、rmally thought to require the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.Adapted from The American Heritage DictionaryAI may turn out to be humankinds greatest achievement.Its really hard to keep up!In 2003,Ray Kurzweil estimated that the rate of technological advance doubles every decade.Thats exponen
6、tial growth,with the advances of the past decade helping to increase the rate of development in the next decade.050100150200250300195019601970198019902000201020202030Rate of Tech Development(1950-2030)In 2024,were developing technology twice as fast as we were in 2014,and 156 times faster than in 19