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FarCenter

(19,429 posts) Mon Nov 28, 2016, 12:08 AM Nov 2016

Google says its AI has taught itself to 'translate between languages that it doesn't know

Google has built an algorithm that enables it to translate between languages that it doesn't know.

The so-called 'zero-shot translation' technology is a self-taught method of translating whereby Google Brain – the research collaboration that specializes in 'deep learning' projects – uses artificial intelligence to translate between languages that it doesn't know.

The translations are made possible by use of a new system called the Google Neural Machine Translation, according to a blog posting by Google Brain.

The end result is that instead of requiring painstaking effort and resources to translate between two languages – which was the case when Google Translate first began over 10 years ago – the GNMT is now capable of using a single system that can translate between languages it doesn't know.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3976052/Google-says-artificial-intelligence-taught-translate-languages-doesn-t-know.html

Within a decade or two, artificial intelligence will beat humans at most intellectual endeavors.

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Google says its AI has taught itself to 'translate between languages that it doesn't know (Original Post) FarCenter Nov 2016 OP

Maybe they can get English/Korean and English/Japanese to work, then. pangaia Nov 2016 #1

And intelligible user manuals! burrowowl Nov 2016 #3

It can't even get Spanish correct LeftInTX Nov 2016 #4

K&R !!! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2016 #2

Can we elect it president? roamer65 Nov 2016 #5

When it can translate Basque, THEN I'll be impressed. n/t DFW Nov 2016 #6

pangaia

(24,324 posts)

1. Maybe they can get English/Korean and English/Japanese to work, then.

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Mon Nov 28, 2016, 12:10 AM

Nov 2016

I mean English/Georgian is almost word perfect!!

burrowowl

(17,641 posts)

3. And intelligible user manuals!

Reply to pangaia (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 28, 2016, 12:18 AM

Nov 2016

LeftInTX

(25,383 posts)

4. It can't even get Spanish correct

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Mon Nov 28, 2016, 02:29 AM

Nov 2016

Genders are constantly wrong..."Ella" translates into "he" all the time. The translations are hard to read and don't make sense. I need to rely on my limited knowledge of Spanish.