Following by the development of Artificial intelligence and deep learning,the machine translation becomes more and more wiser.The accuracy and velocity of machine translation has increased so much.So In front of the machine translation, do we still need learning English?
Most of the work will die
Following by the development of artificial intelligence, most of the work will die. Why?Because the advantage of the machine lies in finishing the simple and repeated work.If there have clear rules,the machine would do better than men with its amazing compute power.So if your work is simple,no-creative and have clear rules,it would be replaced by machine in the future with high probability.
Will translation work be repalced by machine?
The answer is yes!The simple and no creative work will be replaced by machine. The translation work also can't be escaped by sheer luck.Except some best translators who are creative and minded,most bottom translators will be lose their job when meet with artificial intelligence.
Is English still worth learning?
The answer is also yes.Why?Why is English still worth learning in the event that most translators will lose their job in front of artificial intelligence?
Because we have no choice!We cannot be sure that which job would be replaced by the machine in the first.And the condition that with high probability is almost every job would be replaced by the machine.So don't we need to work and increase our ability any more?No!If we do this, we would be so stupid.
No matter how the future develope.No matter how many jobs will be replaced by AI.There have one thing that is certain.That is the people with poor ability will be replaced by AI in the first place.We have no idea when AI will be strong enough to replace our jobs.We have no idea witch job will be replaced in the first.But we can be sure we will be fall into disuse in the first if our ability is single and low-level.
Growth is our permanent pursuit
As a lifelong learner and lifelong practicer ,growth is our permanent pursuit.There have no useless knowledge and skills ,there only have useless people.So long as we know a little more than others,we would be better than others.No matter what the skill is and how useless the skill looks,the skill could be play an important role in some place we can't see in the future.If we master more skills, we would have higher probability to succed.But if we don't have any excellent skills,we would have no chance to accomplish our dreams.
No matter how we treat the time,the time is elapsing.So the best way we treat time is cherish every minute and fight hard to improve our abilities.Action is always better than fancy.Don't waste our time in worry about whether English is still useful in the future. Don't waste our time in hestiate to learn English.Just go on.Just begin to learn. Just fight and persist.Make progress everyday and make sure we are better than yesterday.