With the launching of Google's Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system in September, the platform initially designed to provide a better and a more natural medium for translations; however, it seems to have invented its own internal secret language recently.
The Google Al translation tool creates a picture of having zero-shoot translation system, where it has a capability to give translations of English to Japanese, Korean to English, and vice-versa. One interesting discovery also shows the system's ability to translate Korean to Japanese and/or Japanese to Korean language, without bridging through the English language.
Does the concept for Google Al translation sound reasonable and feasible?
Further observations show the NMT tool producing, indeed, sensible conversion between Japanese and Korean language --- even if any is not linked to English as a translation bridge, as reported on TC.
How does Google Al translation work in the first place?
The NMT converts a given sentence into one translation, rather than translating the meaning of each word. The tool looks into the sentence's entire perspective and give out reasonable and rational translation, which involves correct grammar mechanism. As such, it keeps itself away from being tagged as a robotic approach to translate a sentence from one language to another, according to HOTHARDWARE.
To date, accuracy rate shows a positive trend from 55 to 85 percent as Google Neural Machine Translation tool aims to become an end-to-end learning system, producing reasonable translations for anyone who wants to learn another foreign language.
Currently, the tool is available to translate eight commonly used languages such as Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, and Turkish to English language --- hoping to do the same for 103 other languages.
The posing question of whether it's the AI's way of developing its own internal language or "interlingua" needs us to be alarmed or not requires more investigation as Google's translation system paves way to providing powerful translations for online users worldwide.
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