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

[LazyLion]

Up until September last year, Google Translate used phrase-based translation. It basically did the same thing you do when you look up key words and phrases in your Lonely Planet language guide. It’s effective enough, and blisteringly fast compared to thumbing your way awkwardly through a bunch of pages looking for the French equivalent of “please bring me all of your cheese and don’t stop until I fall over”, but it lacks nuance.

Phrase-based translation is a blunt force object. It does the job well enough to get by, but mapping roughly equivalent words and phrases no understanding of linguistic structures can only offer relatively crude results.

It’s also limited by the extent of an available vocabulary. Phrase-based translation has no capacity to make educated guesses at words it doesn’t recognise, and can’t learn from new input.

And then in September Google gave their translation tool a new engine: the Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT). The new engine comes fully loaded with all the hot 2016 buzzwords, like neural network and machine learning. The short version is that Google Translate got smart. It developed the ability to learn from the people who used it. It learnt how to make educated guesses about the content, tone and meaning of phrases based on the context of other words and phrases around them. And — here’s the bit that should make your brain explode — it got creative.

Google Translate invented its own language to help it translate more effectively.

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[Hamster]

SKYNET!!!

 

[LazyLion]

I for one, welcome our new Robot Overlords.

 

[Arzy]

I for one, welcome our new Robot Overlords.

Can only be an improvement

 

[saor]

Lol, all this cool voice tech and all I want is to scrap the stupid 'ok google' phrase and use my own .

 

[msquared]

Lol, all this cool voice tech and all I want is to scrap the stupid 'ok google' phrase and use my own .

What phrase will you use?

I'm partial to "Baldrick!"

 

[Zenbaas]

Lol, all this cool voice tech and all I want is to scrap the stupid 'ok google' phrase and use my own .

Agreed.

 

[JJCT]

Lol, all this cool voice tech and all I want is to scrap the stupid 'ok google' phrase and use my own .

+1 on this

 

[konfab]

I for one, welcome our new Robot Overlords.

Better than the Jewish ones

 

[backstreetboy]

Old news...

 

[Cius]

Robot overlords first realization is the cheapest and easiest way to rule humans is to reduce them to their skeletal form.

 

[konfab]

Robot overlords first realization is the cheapest and easiest way to rule humans is to reduce them to their skeletal form.

 

[Agent_Smith]

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Just don't go to the toilet with this oke around...

 

[Solarion]

Ex Machina anyone?