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Re:The Shallowness of Google Translate by tmoravec on Saturday February 03, 2018 @02:38PM (#16299139)
Nice examples. But the problem with "swallow" and similar lies somewhere else. It's that translating a single word into a single word is a ridiculously stupid idea. As a person whose mother tongue is not English, I occasionally stumble on a word that I need to translate. GT is utterly useless for me. A random free online dictionary gives me 20 different translations for "swallow".

I am honestly surprised that a company with such talent creates a tool that is this useless; it's literally about doing something like this:

1) Check if the word or phrase is in a dictionary. If it is, return all results from the dictionary. 2) If it's not, try something smarter.

But no, this is not Artificial Intelligence enough! /s

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