In recent weeks, an interpreter made headlines. According to Le Monde, the European Commission dismissed an interpreter suspected of espionage on behalf of Moscow. The individual had reportedly taken notes (while not interpreting) during a high-level, closed-door meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in late 2024. The dismissal followed an internal investigation into the interpreter’s…
Category: Generative AI
Empowering Autonomous Learning Through AI
I recently developed a tool that gave birth to the first interpreting lesson entirely generated by Artificial Intelligence. The material (example available here) showcases the potential of Generative AI to transform teaching methods across various subjects, placing students at the heart of the learning experience by making them more autonomous. The dream of shifting the…
Having a professor at your fingertips? Is it possible?
I couldn’t resist the temptation and created a digital clone of myself, or more precisely, of the knowledge from my publications on #interpreting and #technology. Now, people can engage in natural language conversations with this virtual counterpart, asking questions about the few topics where I possess some expertise. From what I can discern, as the…
Machine Interpreting and Translation Universals
Today, we’ve made generally available the integration of a Large Language Model (LLM) into KUDO AI Simultaneous Speech Translator. To the best of my knowledge, this marks the first instance of Generative AI being incorporated into a real-life speech translation system. When I began experimenting with LLMs in speech translation, I was immediately struck by…