Google unveils AI translation system

The U.S. Internet giant announced that Google Translate has been switched to a new system called Neural Machine Translation (NMT), an end-to-end learning framework that learns from millions of examples. The multilingual system is based on machine learning that provides computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Unlike the current translation system that was adopted 10 years ago, the new system considers the entire sentence as one unit. Previous systems translated words and phrases independently within a sentence. Google said the NMT interprets entire sentences, making the translation not only sound much more like a native speaker of the language but more accurate.