Google translations get a major boost from artificial intelligence

Google just made a major upgrade to its Translate app.

The company is now using a new technology called neural machine translation — which aims to make computer-generated translations more similar to those done by humans — to power its translations in seven new languages. Google says the update should make translations in those languages much more accurate and easier to understand.

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The company previously rolled out this technology for Chinese to English translations in September. Now, Google is using the same technology to power translations to and from English in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish. These languages, along with Chinese, make up more than a third of all translations on Google Translate, the company says. Read more...

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