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My thoughts on business, value, and how AI is changing both.
Thirty years running businesses. Now I help you run yours. Along the way I've invested in companies and worked inside others as a fractional CMO, and I teach AI, sales and key account management at Cranfield. Two books so far. More about me.
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What I told Carnegie Mellon’s translation students
Notes from an evening with translation students at Carnegie Mellon University: why the language industry is worth staying in, four waves of technology, why AI grew out of translation, why linguists make the best salespeople, Popeye, a sauna, speaking, your name as the one thing you own, and resilience. With three interactive figures.
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From pencil to AI
- Pre-1990sPencil and the typing poolEvery word by hand, typed up by someone else
- 1990sTranslation memoryNever translate the same sentence twice
- 2006Statistical MTGoogle Translate: free, rough translation for everyone
- 2016Neural MTGoogle, then DeepL: fluent enough to post-edit
- 2017The TransformerBuilt for translation, became the engine of AI
- 2022+LLMsAI dubbing, AI interpreting, translation inside everything
Every step, people said translation was finished.
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