The translation skills of current software are far less than humans. Most of the translation content is not fluent, but the situation may change in the future. Microsoft researchers recently stated that they have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that can translate the content as accurately as humans. The new translation system was created by three internal teams. The task was to translate Chinese news into English. In order to make the translation capability reach the human level, the system integrated several emerging neural network technologies, including technologies developed by Microsoft for this project. Xuedong Huang, head of the Microsoft Speech, Natural Language and Machine Translation team, said natural language processing is a challenge. The new translation system developed by Microsoft is an important milestone. One of the system support functions is ' “dual learning”, for example, the system translates the English content written by oneself into Chinese to provide reference content for AI to check the correctness of the translation result and learn from mistakes. In addition, Microsoft also refers to newly developed Technology, letting the system constantly translate to improve accuracy, similar to humans modifying their own writing. Through a research database called newstest2017, the AI system was verified to be as accurate as humans. The system was tested several times, and hundreds of sentences were translated each time. Afterwards, external linguists compared the results of human translations. In order to check its accuracy, Zhongyingying is only one of the skills of the AI system. Microsoft hopes that it translates other languages and has the same accuracy, and also plans to integrate it into other products. Microsoft also provides similar Google translations for free. And the enterprise version of the translation software, the future is intended to introduce a translation function for the internal team's chat room, saying that employees of different languages will be able to communicate smoothly. However, Microsoft's new translation software is still unable to translate speech, researchers admits to the current technology It is still an important research milestone, and it is also a breakthrough achievement of Microsoft's recent series of deep learning research.
