Farewell Localization: Welcome to the Brave New World of AI

This year at TAUS we are saying farewell to localization. A new sensation, a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that can exist outside our human brain and mimic our intellectual tasks is here. Together we can design new pipelines: automated, data-driven, and self-learning. We can make translation and localization invisible and reinvent ourselves as the Global Content Industry.

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jaap-van-der-meer

Jaap van der Meer founded TAUS in 2004. He is a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company, INK, in The Netherlands in 1980. Jaap is a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies, translation and globalization trends.

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