AZ World Translations Blog
PDAC 2026
Welcome to the Prospector and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) 2026 conference! As the mining world gathers at PDAC once again, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Toronto. Deals are going to be made, discoveries are going to be shared with...
AI and Human Output: Why Human Expertise Still Matters
We are living in an era where it can sometimes be difficult to tell whether written or multimedia content was produced by a human or by a machine (I’m exaggerating—I can still recognize it!), and, at the same time, artificial intelligence often appears to threaten the...
How are AI, Machine Translation & Neural Machine Translation different?
Artificial Intelligence Translation (AIT) - the big umbrella Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science focused on making computers and machines “smart”— making them capable of learning, reasoning, and solving problems like humans. Artificial...
Has AI replaced translators
In my first blog of this year, I want to address this comment that I received on LinkedIn: “…Thanks for reaching out, but we don’t need translation services at this time. Btw…hasn’t AI kind of killed this as a service?” Thinking about this comment, I remembered...
Bridging Cultures: the Challenges of Translating into Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun
Recently, AZ World was asked by a long-term client to translate some internal documents into the two official First Nation languages of Nunavut, Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun. Nunavut is Canada’s newest, northernmost territory, and home to rich Indigenous cultures and...