Globalization's daily progress is mirrored in the ever-increasing demand of translation services. The reason for that is in the development of information and communication technologies, economy and political associations. Translation can be defined as a transfer of content from one media to another making us use various interpreters, like machine translation tools, human translators, etc. Comparing machine and human translation, which is an indispensable topic these days, it can be said that machine translation has more advantages in terms of speed and lower translation costs. On the other hand, the advantage of human translation is the ability to transfer a complete and clear picture regarding the content message. This is because human translation is not literal like machine translation. This paper elaborates on machine translation, defines its purpose and meaning, and compares and analyzes machine and human translation. For this purpose of this paper, three different types of translations were selected. One translation was done by a student (author of the original abstract), one by a machine translation tool and last one by an expert in the English language. 15 selected sentences were analyzed and compared upon which the conclusion about the most appropriate translation being done by the expert was drawn. In order to translate appropriately, linguistic knowledge of two languages is not sufficient; rather, one needs to have morphological, syntatic, semantic, phraseologicala and cultural knowledge. Also, it is essential to make the right choices in cases of polysemy by taking the context and register into account, which is still a very difficult task for a machine translation tool.