Facebook translations now rely entirely on neural networks - SiliconANGLE

With more than 2 billion users, Facebook Inc. has to deal with dozens of different languages on its social network, which poses a bit of a barrier to the company's new mission to "bring the world closer together." Facebook hopes that artificial intelligence will be the answer to this problem, and today the company announced that its translations now rely entirely on cutting-edge neural machine learning. In a blog post published today, Facebook researchers Juan Miguel Pino, Alexander Sidorov and Necip Fazil Ayan explained just how hard it is to deal with so many languages. "Creating seamless, highly accurate translation experiences for the 2 billion people who use Facebook is difficult," they said. "We need to account for context, slang, typos, abbreviations, and intent simultaneously."