The mind-blowing AI announcement from Google that you probably missed.

[Woz]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mind-blowing-ai-announcement-from-google-you-probably-gil-fewster

"Google Translate invented its own language to help it translate more effectively.

What's more, nobody told it to. It didn't develop a language (or interlingua, as Google call it) because it was coded to. It developed a new language because the software determined over time that this was the most efficient way to solve the problem of translation."

[Rumbas]

Nope, didn't miss it. Saw it last week.

Mind blowing nevertheless.

[Woz]

Hehe, not my title, but as you say ...

[ergophobe]

We discussed it here
http://th3core.com/talk/threadwatch/google-ai-goes-a-bit-'off-piste'/

That article is way over the top. What happened is super interesting, but it isn't mind-blowing sci-fi novel stuff like the article would have you believe. It's great, it's awesome, it's evolutionary (not revolutionary) and it points to a future that is hard for us to imagine outside of science fiction in terms of translation, search, information curation, knowledge, education, etc etc.... but read the thread linked above for a more realistic take on what this is really about.

[bill]

A future where machine translation actually works? I've been waiting for that for a while.