Google's Neural Machine Translation engine learns three new languages, with more on the way

Late last year, Google announced a breakthrough in translating. Dubbed Neural Machine Translation, it let Google's AI-powered engine tackle full sentences instead of just words, giving translations a more natural feel. Now Google is expanding it to a several more languages. Back when it launched, Google's new translator was available for English and just eight other languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish. Now it is bringing it to Hindi, Russian, and Vietnamese, with more rolling out in the coming weeks.