{"id":10345,"date":"2014-03-14T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10345"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:59","slug":"a-babelfish-could-be-the-webs-next-big-thing-says-ai-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/a-babelfish-could-be-the-webs-next-big-thing-says-ai-expert","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Babelfish\u2019 could be the web\u2019s next big thing, says AI expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\"><a class=\"contributor\" itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/charlesarthur\" rel=\"author\">Charles Arthur<\/a> \u2014 The Guardian<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/> Though the idea of the \u201cBabelfish\u201d \u2014 a thing able to translate between any two languages on the fly \u2014 was created by the author Douglas Adams as a handy solution to the question of how intergalactic travellers could understand each other, it could be reality within 25 years. At least, that is, for human language.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Nigel Shadbolt, a close associate of the web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says that the idea of automatic machine translation \u201con the fly\u201d is achievable before the world wide web turns 50.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/mar\/14\/babelfish-web-language-translation-lifelogging-cyberwar\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Arthur \u2014 The Guardian Though the idea of the \u201cBabelfish\u201d \u2014 a thing able to translate between any two languages on the fly \u2014 was created by the author Douglas Adams as a handy solution to the question of how intergalactic travellers could understand each other, it could be reality within 25 years. At [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65020,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions\/65020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}