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Adriana Hunter & Brian Clegg

Computer brain

Adriana Hunter considers the limits of automated translation, and Brian Clegg rues our human tendency to reduce the world into rigid categories. Adriana Hunter contemplates the limitations of automated language translation by computers, and the liberties that human translators simply must take with source material. Brian Clegg considers our human tendency to interpret the world via patterns and categories, and explains the trouble this causes when it comes to getting books into the hands of readers that might enjoy them.

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