Digital Babel Fish: The holy grail of Conversational AI

Yesterday's science fiction is today's invention. Babel Fish, the "oddest thing in the universe", is a species of fish featured in Douglas Adam's magnum opus, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy. The fish, worn as an earpiece, translates all the languages that ever existed instantly. Babel Fish is no longer the stuff of dreams: Thanks to advances in AI, especially in the NLP domain, many tech giants are in the process of building a universal translator. To that end, Universal Speech Translator was a dominant theme in the Meta's Inside the Lab event on February 23.