The mind-blowing AI announcement from Google that you probably missed.

In the closing weeks of 2016, Google published an article which quietly sailed under most people's radar. Which is a shame, because the article may just be the most astonishing thing about machine learning that I read last year. Don't feel bad if you missed it. Not only was the article competing with the pre-Christmas rush most of us were navigating, it was also tucked away on Google's Research Blog beneath the geektastic headline Zero-Shot Translation with Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System. It doesn't exactly scream must read, does it?