Resource Microsoft says its AI can translate Chinese as well as a human

Dang, I just refreshed the page and it already got merged. That was fast

 

Well,

They need to make a new ai baby by letting 2 ai in the same servers together.
Maybe that one can understand how teenagers behave in forums and teach them a thing or 2.

 

well spanish is the second most spoken language in the world xD. But well why not chinese I'll say , it's harder to learn than spanish.

 

MTL programs might get most of the words right, numbers depending on which country has varying success, but whether you can fully understand the text with totally missing grammar but 'right enough' words is up to each reader.

 

Overall, systran TL seems the most intelligible of the lot. It is the only one which did not completely butcher the second sentence.

Sometimes cottons up to the chef of serving, but can also come a ladle vegetable.

cotton up to someone- cosy up to someone/flatter
come a ladle vegetable- get an extra serving(?)

Possible meaning: Sometimes, flattering the chef gets you a bit more than the usual portion of food(?)

 

Yes, Systran was the best. Machine translation is actually a lot better now than it was a few years ago. I'm convinced that in a few years it will be almost indistinguishable from a human translator, but only for conversational vocabulary. It will probably take a bit longer for translation programs to translate the more difficult stuff.