Google Translate gets a boost from deep neural networks
Many of the technological nightmares we bring to life on film revolve around artificial intelligence gone wrong, usually somewhere around the year 2000. 2016 is almost over, though, and we don't live in a post-apocalyptic future-at least, not yet. AI still struggles to do things humans do with ease, like forming coherent sentences and playing games millions of people play easily. But Google has been making big strides in both of those areas this year. Case in point is a recent boost to Google Translate's performance thanks to deep neural networks.
Earlier this year, one of Google's deep neural networks tackled one of the toughest puzzles in artificial intelligence research when it defeated Lee Sedol, a Korean grandmaster in the game of Go. Go is relatively simple to learn, but difficult to ...