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Actually Microsoft is in competition with Google on this; since they made a breakthrough first their article tends to be a bit exaggerated. PS: I was just taking a breaking from studying kanji when I came upon this. lol

couldn't agree more on that

Don't get too hyped, this is still far from complete

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/machine-translation-news-test-set-human-parity/ long story, short; Microsoft believes that they have made the first system that can translate Chinese news articles to English with the same quality and accuracy of a professional translator. Apparently this is not some program that searches words in a dictionary and try to merge the results together, It's more like a self - learning AI( one of its learning method is that once it translates a sentence, it translates it back and sees how much it has held its meaning and improve its database like that) Of course this may mean much since the material was only chosen from news articles and so far it has only done Chinese to English; even the team has stated "No one knows whether machine translation systems will ever get good enough to translate any text in any language pair with the accuracy and lyricism of a human translator." ,but even so, this is still a great achievement since their test results matched that of professional translators. Now the team is feeding their system with wider contents, not just news articles, and the bright point is this can work between any two language, since it's a self-learning AI. If you know Chinese, you can test the translation here: https://translator.microsoft.com/neural/