The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is threatening many freelance translators and small language service providers (LSPs). But worrying about declining prices is no solution. What is needed is a collective approach to protect small businesses and to use AI to secure their existence.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the buzzword you’ve probably heard enough of this year. General technological forecasting paints an ugly picture of an invaded labor space where man and machine coexist in an inharmonic fashion while businesses focus on hardware efficiency. At least, this is the regular journalistic conflation that is based on a phenomenon known as the "panic cycle". Figure 1 depicts this cyclical reactionary trend that has been witnessed in the face of new technologies.
Figure 1: The technology panic cycle
Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
This is not to say that concern and panic are unfounded. It is an economic fact that not all parties will benefit from new technological developments. In the U.S., factories have already been heavily impacted. This, along with indications of poor political economic management, has led to an increase in layoffs.
...
Read more after login
tekom members can log in directly with their "My tekom" access data.
You are not yet a tekom member, but would like to read one or more articles in full? Then you have the opportunity to register on the internet portal of the technical journal 'tcworld' without obligation. Once you have registered, you can select any three specialist articles and view them in full for a period of two months. The selection will then be deleted and you can select three new articles for the next two months.
As a tekom member you benefit from the following advantages::
- Online access to all articles of the trade magazine 'tcworld magazine'
- Exclusive specialist articles from all areas of technical communication
- Regular new articles from over 300 authors
- The technical journal 'tcworld magazine' as a printed edition
- Reduced admission prices to tekom conferences
- Membership fees for tekom publications
- Access to 'my tekom', the web forum with job offers / job requests, appointments, expert advice, service provider file and much more
Login
Registration
Promised: The trade magazine 'tcworld magazine' is the best we have. And we don't make the choice easy for ourselves. Every month, the editorial staff of the technical journal 'tcworld magazine' publishes the latest articles by renowned authors. This demanding selection is available exclusively to members of tekom (as usual, including the printed edition).
The trade magazine 'tcworld magazine' stands for intelligently prepared specialist articles, texts written to the point, informative content, surprising insights, international perspectives and communicates technical communication in an understandable, fast, clear and uncomplicated way - exclusively for you.
