This was a pleasant surprise even for Microsoft’s researchers:
Microsoft Translate achieves human parity
Microsoft’s researchers fed the AI system with news from the AI industry for a long time, allowing it to extract complex grammar, syntax and vocabulary patterns. The Redmond giant also relied on a very useful trial and error learning method. More specifically, the AI system first translated thousands of sentences from Chinese to English, and then back to Chinese in order to improve its logic patterns. This learning corpus allowed AI to become smart enough so as to translate articles on a parity with bilingual translators. Further more, the AI also relies on a highly specialized technique called ‘deliberation’ that allows it to toedit its translations just like human translators do. The complexity of machine translation is what makes it such as challenging yet rewarding problem. Recent machine translation advancements suggest that one day AI system will indeed be able to translate any text as accurately as human translators. The latest Microsoft Translate improvements are not available to consumers yet. However, Microsoft is expected to roll them out in the coming months to take on Google Translate. RELATED STORIES TO CHECK OUT:
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