During the Cold War, the U.S. government funded machine translation projects because officials feared human interpreters in diplomatic exchanges between the US and Soviet Union might deliberately mislead, so they sought to replace interpreters with automatic translators.
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“one of the problems of the time was the cold war and people were thinking well there are occasionally these sort of high level diplomatic exchanges between you know the US and Soviet Union and so on and they had this idea that well you know in those exchanges there would be some interpreter who'd be you know translating Russian to English”
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The AI Expert: "Super AI Will Be Unstoppable!" – What’s Coming NEXT | Stephen Wolfram— Sean KimCreated: 8/11/2026, 5:31:42 AM
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