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DeepL’s CEO: Algorithms won’t completely replace human translators
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Jack Dunwell
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France
Local time: 14:04
French to English
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Excitement dissipated Jan 9, 2020

I was excited to see that there was a Wunderkind which is DeepL and tried it on a French "procuration" (into English).
I was shocked at how poor it was and reckoned it would take longer to put it right
than to just translate from scratch.
It seems very over-hyped to me and it can't be separated into subject (legal for example)
and is really not in a very reliable state.
Response from the sales team included:

"Note, however, that our translator is able t... See more
I was excited to see that there was a Wunderkind which is DeepL and tried it on a French "procuration" (into English).
I was shocked at how poor it was and reckoned it would take longer to put it right
than to just translate from scratch.
It seems very over-hyped to me and it can't be separated into subject (legal for example)
and is really not in a very reliable state.
Response from the sales team included:

"Note, however, that our translator is able to understand as good as possible which is the nature of the area of expertise one entered text is from and, therefore, it translates accordingly.

We hope this helps.
Best,
DeepL Sales"

I really wouldn't expect to be paid for that
What do you think? What IS it good at?
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