Facebook's translations are now powered completely by AI

Every day, Facebook performs some 4.5 billion automatic translations -- and as of yesterday, they're all processed using neural networks. Previously, the social networking site used simpler phrase-based machine translation models, but it's now switched to the more advanced method. "Creating seamless, highly accurate translation experiences for the 2 billion people who use Facebook is difficult," explained the company in a blog post. "We need to account for context, slang, typos, abbreviations, and intent simultaneously." The big difference between the old system and the new one is the attention span.