Jack Cole <jcol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> . . . A recent story along these lines is that it can even translate > between two untrained languages. > > For example, if the system has been trained to translate between English > and Spanish and English and Portuguese, then it can reasonably translate > between Spanish and Portuguese even though it has not been trained. > > https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/googles-ai-translation- > tool-seems-to-have-invented-its-own-secret-internal-language/ > That's amazing. But it is not the best test they could have run. They translated from Japanese into Korean. Japanese and Korean are similar in many ways. This is like going from Spanish into Italian. They should try it from Japanese to Russian, or Japanese to Navajo. - Jed
