When the Translators Wept
On December 14, 2022, translators for Wycliffe Bible Translators gathered in a conference room in Orlando, Florida, for what they expected to be a routine...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Acts 2:1-31.
On December 14, 2022, translators for Wycliffe Bible Translators gathered in a conference room in Orlando, Florida, for what they expected to be a routine technology demo. Engineers showed them a new AI-assisted tool that could draft Scripture translations in languages so remote that only a handful of linguists had ever attempted them. When the system produced a draft of John 3:16 in Mixtec — a language one translator had spent eleven years working on — she broke down sobbing.…
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