Raining Cats and Dogs?
An AI can translate a text from one language into another. That belongs to language AI. Experts call it NLP for short.
What you'll learn in this level
- Why word-for-word translation doesn't work
- How an AI learns to translate from millions of example sentences
- What translation AIs still get wrong today
How an AI Translates
An AI can translate a text from one language into another. That belongs to language AI. Experts call it NLP for short.
That lets people understand each other across languages. You can reach texts in foreign languages. And it helps you when you learn a language.
How an AI translates
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Word order
The AI knows the words and the word order. It knows them in both languages.
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Neural networks
Modern systems use neural networks. That way they catch the meaning, not just single words.
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Learning
The AI learns from millions of translated texts. That is how it spots how the languages fit together.
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Still hard
Sayings are hard. Hints from one country are hard too. And so are words with more than one meaning.
Soon you will translate texts yourself. Then you compare your translation with the AI's.
Guess first, then experiment
Translate the German saying "Es regnet Bindfäden" word for word. You get "It rains strings". Does an English child understand that?