SUPERIORITY OF HUMAN TRANSLATION OVER MACHINE TRANSLATION
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This research explores the ongoing discussions regarding the capabilities and differences between artificial intelligence and human translators, especially in light of the rapid advancements in machine translation (MT) technologies. By analyzing two texts with distinct styles – the scientific work A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and the fiction novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – the study examines the advantages of human manual translation over machine translation. A comparison of how machine translation works with human translation was done in various stylistic areas. The findings show that professional translators produce better results, because they use their language skills, cultural knowledge and expertise to maintain the original text’s meaning and tone.However, machine translation is still not able to grasp the cultural and emotional significance of materials found in literature. The investigation found that despite AI, human translation maintains its natural characteristics. There are situations where accuracy and attention to cultural customs are vital and so human translation is needed.
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