Google AI Creates Its Own Language to Translate Languages It Doesn't Know - Breitbart

Google Brain's Neural Network AI has reportedly created its own universal language, which allows the system to translate between other languages without knowing them. By simply teaching the AI "how to translate from Portuguese to English and English to Spanish," the system was able to then translate from Spanish to Portuguese on its own without any outside guidance. "In the last 10 years, Google Translate has grown from supporting just a few languages to 103, translating over 140 billion words every day," declared Google in their research blog. "To make this possible, we needed to build and maintain many different systems in order to translate between any two languages, incurring significant computational cost. With neural networks reforming many fields, we were convinced we could raise the translation quality further, but doing so would mean rethinking the technology behind Google Translate." "In'Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation,' we address this challenge by extending our previous GNMT system, allowing for a single system to translate between multiple languages," they continued.