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We're finalising texts for the #Schwärmen+#Vernetzen catalog; because my text construction requires that each paragraph stays at exactly 108 words, I gave Google Translate a go - holy moly, that engine has become scarily good, you can almost copy + paste the output with only minor corrections. (We use proper translators for the other texts)
@sciss You think? I find it pretty poor (or hilarious) for anything other than single sentences that have no ambiguity. Hofstadter recently did a nice write-up on this: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/
@KnowPresent Obivously its not very creative, call it shallow, but it's quite accurate capturing the meaning even with long and nested sentences. A few years back and you could just use it to get a raw idea of the meaning. Perhaps it's only the to-english that works so well. I bet they threw some large NN at it,