According to a researcher at the University of Cardiff, the future of translation will combine human and machine intelligence. Even though machine translation has become more efficient each and every year, it will never be able to replace the linguistic capabilities of human beings. Instead, future progress in the field will revolve around the improvement of human-machine cooperation. You can read the article by Ben Screen, a Welsh translation researcher, here:
https://theconversation.com/the-future-of-translation-is-part-human-part-machine-76253
In our daily business, we have noticed this trend for a long time. Many of our customers are heavily involved in MTPE (Machine Translation + Post-Editing) projects and some even contribute to the development of translation algorithms. If you are interested in our work in MTPE projects, do reach out to us at info@simplefive.com or make a request at https://simplefive.com/en/start-a-request.html.