On this week's show, Javi welcomes a true heavy hitter in the world of localization. Chris Dell found his way into localization through writing, publishing, and translation, and he spent the last 15 years building Booking.com into a corporation of over 15,000 people.

Freshly "retired," Chris is reconnecting with old passions and starting new projects. In the episode, he and Javi discuss:

- Chris's experience at Booking.com

- Starting out by studying art

- Non-linear careers

- Curiosity driving your career

- Over empathizing" as a new manager

- Giving space and giving support as a leader

- Building relationships with international teams

- The emotional toll of letting employees go

- Vulnerability in leadership

- Good bosses vs. bad bosses

- Top down culture and crowd-sourced values

- Cultivating Ownership

- Investing in machine translation since 2016

- The value of not burning employees out

- Making time for what matters

- Recognizing our autonomy

- Re-learning to read

- Coaching

- Writing about prophecies and omens

and more!

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You can learn more about Chris here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dell-69597550/

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Can AI translate better than humans? Can I trust AI? Is my data safe?

Christopher Penn, co-founder of truthinsights.ai, answers all of these questions and more on this week's episode of Merging Minds. Gabriel and Chris discuss what is real vs. what is hype in terms of security, AI adoption, LLMs, and the changing landscape of knowledge work in the age of AI.

They discuss:

• LLAMA 3.1: Blowing the doors open on mass adoption
• Hype vs. actual usage
• Informal adoption vs. institutional adoption
• Internalized infrastructure vs. Cloud infrastructure
• The security of local files vs. cloud-based files
• Hybrid approach to data security
• Technological evolution
• Prompting LLMs for better translations
• Humans are still the best translators
• LLMs as "second opinions" for translators
• Sparsity and Risk in translation
• The emergent properties of language
• Language technology influencing the nature of reason
• Language is a symbolic compression
• "We and our machines are more similar than we think"
• Culture begets language- How can technology reflect this?
• Linguistic curators
• Reconstructing the Algonquin language with AI
• Coding in natural language for translators
• Translators are like farmers
• The supply chain of translation after automation

And more!

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You can learn more about Christopher Penn here, and trustinsights.ai here.

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This week, Javi welcomes his good friend Mirko Plitt to the show. Mirko is a computational linguist by trade, but has filled a vast number of roles across the localization industry and in NGOs.

Currently working for the WHO, Mirko is looking to fulfill the dream of localization: Bringing important and impactful content to global audiences in the most relevant way.

Tune in to hear him and Javi discuss:

• Working with the WHO
• Early Machine Translation Development
• The "dodgy business" of early MT
• The difficulty of working internationally
• Translators without borders
• "How Many Languages Do You Speak?"- The toxic question
• The growth of machine translation
• Big Data and Old Algorithms
• "We used to laugh at computational linguists"
• High Stakes Localization with the WHO
• The promise of the localization industry- not JUST translating
• Appreciating when people are better than you at something
• Fostering independence through support
• The cost of ignoring human value
• Replacing ambition with motivation

And much more!

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You can learn more about Mirko Plitt here .

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