[patrickk]

English and German are EU languages. Russian is not.

The EU maintains a large translation service to translate most EU official texts into all EU languages. So Google Translate is using that to train on. Google gets a free gift from a multinational bureaucracy and gets to look like a smart company in the process.

This is also why English-Mandarin is often poorly translated, in my opinion.

[arthur_sav]

Doesn't that mean it's just inevitable what will happen.

The question is not longer IF machines are capable, the question is WHEN. And the when is no longer decades away.

[71bw]

>This is also why English-Mandarin is often poorly translated, in my opinion.

Shockingly, this is something that Yandex Translate absolutely excels at.

[tripzilch]

> Google gets a free gift from a multinational bureaucracy and gets to look like a smart company in the process

it would have cost you exactly nothing to not make an unnecessary dig at Europeans, here

[eru]

> Google gets a free gift from a multinational bureaucracy and gets to look like a smart company in the process.

Luckily, that gift is available for free to everyone. So it seems like a half-decent thing to do with tax payer money.