Estimating and Comparing Translation Skills: A Comparative Study of ChatGPT and Human Translation

This study explores the exactness of machine translation and finding out the comparison between Generative Pretrained Transformer (chatGpt) that has denoted remarkable development in various projects which are related to language and translation which has done by human being. Intercultural connections have become easy to understand with the emergence of AI tools like chatGpt which is working as a translator for various languages like English, Urdu, Arabic and many more.This study finds the drawbacks and differences of chatGpt translation with human translation. AS a result it designates that chatGpt is less reliable for translation of complexities in languages, it can be used as a translator of simple language but it has less reliability in translation of medical language, language of law and literary works. So, one must be careful as a user of chatGpt while translating such texts and the interference of human being is mandatory to make sure the authenticity of translation. Furthermore, it cannot translate the idiomatic expressions in a refined form. This article is also going to discuss the functions of machine translation and its effect on translation which has already done by human. It selects English and Urdu language for this purpose .English is the target language and source language is Urdu and the researcher uses the qualitative method for this research.