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The A.I. Behind Google Translate Recently Did Something Extraordinary Those translations aren't making us laugh as much as they used to. As someone who lives between two countries, I've relied heavily on machine translation for a number of years. It took me years before I could communicate casually with my in-laws (they're fluent in German and Polish, but not English), without my wife serving as an interpreter. I realize that nothing beats a skilled human translator. But who has time (or money) to hire a person to translate simple, everyday tasks?