Microsoft's Language Translation AI has Reached Human Levels of Accuracy

Even with the advances in the Natural Language Processing field, there have always been nagging doubts about the quality and accuracy of translations from one language to another. Take Google's translation, for example. While it has steadily improved over the years, you still see a few things grammatically wrong with complex sentences. To bridge that gap, Microsoft claims it has developed a system that can translate from Chinese to English with the quality and accuracy of humans. The researchers behind this system developed it by training the model on a set of news stories called newstest2017.