Google Translate is Amazing Now, and That Should Terrify You

If you're fluent in more than you, already know that there's never any direct translation for a lot of phrases. Hell, I'll still use spanglish or other random blends to make sure I get the exact tone I'm looking for (And if my rather obvious humblebrag was a little off-putting, lo siento). But this is a big problem that computer scientists have been working on for years. And it's one that's almost impossible to solve without one of humanity's most recent (and terrifying) inventions: machine learning. The thinking goes that machines are dumb, and for them to do cool shit, like translating, driving a car, or winning Go, we need to make them smart.