Using RNNs for Machine Translation

Stories are the essence of human culture. They contain information about our past, and theories of the future. They allow us to delve into inner workings and subtleties of the human mind, discovering aspects of it that are impossible to analyze traditionally. While stories have always been written by our species in the past, with the growth and research in fields of deep learning, we see computer programs being able to write stories, and use language as humans do, but how? When you were reading the last two paragraphs, you based your understanding of every word off of the previous sentences and words.