Deep learning boosts Google Translate tool

Deep learning boosts Google Translate tool

Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images Google Translate — here shown on a mobile phone — will use deep learning to improve its translations between texts. Google’s online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September. The algorithm, which is also described in a paper posted to the preprint server arXiv1, is the first widely-available computer system for translating languages that relies on the increasingly popular AI technique. Compared to the firm’s existing service, the algorithm reduces errors by around 60%, Google computer scientists say. A Chinese-to-English service that uses the algorithm is now being used on the Google Translate mobile and web-based apps, and Google says that it will roll out other languages over the next…


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