The precise developments I’ll discuss in this article set the basis of all modern language processing systems - from search engines to voice-controlled microwaves. It’s hard to imagine that this is the result of a centennial fight to build the algorithms of machine translation and that there has been no visible success during half of that period. I open Google Translate twice as often as Facebook, and the instant translation of the price tags is not a cyberpunk for me anymore.
By Ilya Pestov A history of machine translation from the Cold War to deep learning Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash
