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Machine translation

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Google and others are pouring millions into building algorithms that can translate from one language to another. Machine translation is a massive challenge and while the machines are getting better at translation everyday, they’re still not upto the mark as this Chinese restaurant found out:

Now there’s another thing that’s going to confuse English speaking visitors to China. Guess it isn’t time to dump the humans and let the machines do all the work yet.

[via Jane Sample]

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    • Dhruv Chopra
    • August 7, 2008

    Haha… this one is a classic.