What would it take to actually build a universal translator?
Posted on January 10, 2017 in Technology
Check it out: https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/31/reverse-engineering-the-universal-translator/
A staple of science fiction is the ability for travelers to freely converse with whatever lifeforms they encounter—despite the wild difficulty they’d have doing all that conversing if it weren’t for that trusty universal translator. Trek popularized it, and Arrival hints at the more intimate details. Tech Crunch talks lingua universalis in this engaging article.