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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:07PM (#23542845)
From what I've read, the early translations were really rough (but on par with competing free products), until they fired all their linguists and brought in AI guys.
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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by thu2111 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:06PM (#23553820)
Not exactly. Google Translate was always a statistical approach from day one. That was the reason it was better than the rules engines that dominated before that. The Translate guys really pioneered statistical machine translation.

However it was all done with hand-crafted statistical functions and code. The new stuff using deep learning is the first time it'd have been referred to as "AI".

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