Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English -- and the app conducts ...

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.

Vasco Pedro had always believed that, despite the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), getting machines to translate languages as well as professional translators do would always need a human in the ...