{"id":31616,"date":"2016-11-02T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T22:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/a-computer-can-now-translate-languages-as-well-as-a-human"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:05:45","slug":"a-computer-can-now-translate-languages-as-well-as-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/a-computer-can-now-translate-languages-as-well-as-a-human","title":{"rendered":"A Computer Can Now Translate Languages as Well as a Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-computer-can-now-translate-languages-as-well-as-a-human.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been in a situation where knowing another language would have come in handy?<\/p>\n<p>I remember standing on the platform at Tokyo Station watching my train to Nagano \u2014 the last train of the day \u2014 pulling away without me on it. What ensued was a frustrating hour of gestures, confused smiles, and head-shaking as I wandered the station looking for someone who spoke English (my Japanese is unfortunately nonexistent). It would have been really helpful to have a bilingual pal along with me to translate.<\/p>\n<p>Bilingual pals can be hard to find, but Google\u2019s new translation software may be an equally useful alternative. In a paper released last week, the authors noted that Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1609.08144\">Neural Machine Translation system<\/a> (GNMT) reduced translation errors by an average of 60% compared to Google\u2019s phrase-based system. GMNT uses deep learning, a technology that aims to \u2018think\u2019 in the same way as a human brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/10\/04\/a-computer-can-now-translate-languages-as-well-as-a-human\/?utm_content=buffer4439e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/10\/04\/a-computer-can-now-tran...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been in a situation where knowing another language would have come in handy? I remember standing on the platform at Tokyo Station watching my train to Nagano \u2014 the last train of the day \u2014 pulling away without me on it. What ensued was a frustrating hour of gestures, confused smiles, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65861,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31616\/revisions\/65861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}