How Google used neural networks and machine learning to transform Translate, an early sign of how AI is poised to reinvent computing itself
How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. Tweets: @ruskin147 , @glenngabe , @nytimes , @sspencer_smb , and @annehelen Tweets: Rory Cellan-Jones / @ruskin147 : http://www.nytimes.com/... One of this year's great reads - NYT on Google's AI work, an essential guide to the subject Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : That's a lot of data: Google Translate (transformed by AI) serves 500M+ monthly users in need of 140B words per day http://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : “The portion of evolution in which animals developed eyes was a big development. Now computers have eyes.” http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Steven Spencer / @sspencer_smb : “not everyone can be like... Robert Oppenheimer, who learned Sanskrit to read the Bhagavad Gita in the original.” http://www.nytimes.com/... Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen : story of Google AI in @NYTmag is masterfully told but note: not a woman to be seen, not even referenced in passing http://www.nytimes.com/...