Microsoft says its AI can translate Chinese as well as humans

Researchers at the company's labs in the U.S. and Asia said they have achieved human parity when translating the newstest2017 collection of news articles from Chinese to English. The articles are commonly used when testing and benchmarking translation results. Microsoft hired third-party bilingual human evaluators to assess the suitability of its methodology. The evaluators compared the results of Microsoft's AI with translations produced by two human linguists. The human translators worked independently of each other to create their renditions of the news stories.