Google Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Make a Huge Change to Its Translate Tool

Teaching machines to truly understand natural language has been one of the biggest challenges facing computer scientists working to advance artificial intelligence. But Google has made real progress in getting computers to look at language as more than just a bag of words, and these advancements are now making their way into its products. Google Translate, for example, is getting a technical makeover with the introduction of Neural Machine Translation (NMT). This follows the first go at utilizing NMT in Translate last November, when English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish all saw the same improvement. "We have 103 languages overall, and our goal is to get all of them working with neural nets," a Google spokesperson told the Observer.