Google's AI translation tool seems to have invented its own language – World Economic Forum

Back in September 2016, Google launched its Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) system, which uses deep learning to deliver more natural translations between languages. Google Translate originally supported only a handful of languages when it launched 10 years ago; today that number has risen to 103. Creating a computer system to translate multiple languages is complex. The people at Google who built it wanted to find out just how clever their system was. So they came up with a challenge.