An intriguing project explored translating Shakespeare's Hamlet into modern English using AI tools like LangChain and Ollama.
The AI successfully preserved core themes like revenge and madness but tended to soften the emotional intensity of the original text.
Character voices were somewhat flattened in the modern translations, losing the nuances crafted by Shakespeare.
While AI-assisted translations can enhance accessibility to classical literature, elements like wordplay and ambiguity that define the original art may be lost in the process.