Artificial intelligence now powers all of Facebook's translation

Facebook says that the new AI-powered translation is 11 percent more accurate than the old-school approach, which is what they call a "phrase-based machine translation" technique that wasn't powered by neural networks. That system translated words or small groups of words individually, and didn't do a good job of considering the context or word order of the sentence. As an example of the difference between the two translation systems, Facebook demonstrated how the old approach would have translated a sentence from Turkish into English, and then showed how the new AI-powered system would do it. The first Turkish-to-English sentence reads this way: "Their, Izmir's why you said no we don't expect them to understand." Now check out the newer translation: "We don't expect them to understand why Izmir said no." Notice how the AI fixed the mistakes in word and phrase order?