Facebook has developed an AI that can translate directly between any pair of 100 languages without having to go through an English translation first, as many existing systems do
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257637-facebook-ai-can-translate-directly-between-any-of-100-languages/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home