Questão de Inglês — Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension — CESPE / CEBRASPE 2023

Text comprehension — Translation difficulties

Gabarito: ✅ CERTO. The text clearly supports the statement that translation is still a difficult task for artificial intelligence, despite technological advances. The author cites experts who highlight the inherent challenges.

Michael Housman explains that language lacks the fixed rules and clear-cut measures of success found in games like chess:

"Language is almost the opposite of that. There aren’t as clearly-cut and defined rules."

Dr. Jorge Majfud adds that considering the entire sentence is still insufficient, and that sarcasm, irony, idioms, and cultural nuances complicate translation:

"The problem is that considering the ‘entire’ sentence is still not enough."

He also emphasizes that translation is essentially interpretation of feelings and ideas, which only humans can fully grasp:

"to translate is basically to interpret, not just an idea but a feeling."

Therefore, the text unequivocally confirms that AI has not mastered translation, making the item correct.

✅ CERTO.