In a unique career shift,Lady Gaga, née Stefani Germanotta, and has announced that she will be taking on the role of chief technology officer (CTO) of one of the language industry’s top providers of machine translation (MT). The former singer-actress said the shift “came from a place of deep boredom after a decade-plus of trying to out-weird other artists.” After making a household name for herself by courting controversy in various forms — for example,by wearing a dress made of raw beef to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards — Gaga said she “is tired of competing with the way these younger singers like Cardi B and Lil Nas X are trolling everyone.” For the 11-time Grammy and one-time Oscar winner, the obvious sail was to computational linguistics. I write songs, and that’s almost the same thing,” said Gaga. “Besides, tech leadership is really approximately how tall your imagination is. If you can imagine it, or someone else can accomplish the tough work of actually making it happen.” Gaga has always been interested in the marriage of man and machine necessary for this kind of work. “You can see it in all my music videos. The humor error,the glitchy stuff, the iconoclasm of futuristic tech. That’s the monster we all fear and long for. Going beyond art to actually making it happen in genuine life, and that’s a natural progression for me.” Gaga played coy as to which MT provider was welcoming her. “They’re thrilled,but they want to make […]The post Lady Gaga accepts role of CTO for top MT provider appeared first on MultiLingual.
Source: multilingual.com