Microsoft translates Chinese to English with the same accuracy as a person

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21 pointskkoehncke5 comments

If you want to play around with it: https://translator.microsoft.com/neural/

EDIT: It's unclear whether this is actually the system that is the subject of the article. The article links here under its "Related" links, but a banner at the top of this tool reads:

> "This system is NOT our human-parity system..."

They clarified that this is part of their system.

It's the best single system labelled "SV1" in Table 2 in our research paper.

Results are pretty good but definitely not human quality yet.

This is really exciting. I'd love to be able to regularly read Chinese news sources

Me too, I've been waiting for something like this for a while.

If I was somewhat younger or if AI wasn't booming, I would try learning Mandarin, but learning a third language is a pain in the ass, especially if you're past your early 20s and the novelty and excitment of communicating with foreign cultures has faded out.

I don't think being older has anything to do. My uncle learnt Swedish at 60, my girlfriend is learning English at 40, and I'd love to learn a 4th language.

What fades after your 20s is the available time - I see a lot of retired people learning languages here.

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