![]() ![]() That said, there is no telling what this function actually represents: a developer’s joke, a fried microchip, or some amazing advance of computer intellect. The Russian Facebook page “ Insane Asylum” (which first spotted the anomaly) has called the service “the Mongolian oracle.” Just type any rubbish you want, and, voila, behold the prophetic mutterings of artificial intelligence. Consider a few examples: Diplomat Brief Weekly Newsletter N In a bizarre twist, it now recognizes unspeakable gobbledygook as legitimate sentences in the language of the nomadic nation. This seem to have happened with Google Translate’s Mongolian service. Meanwhile, automatic translation software is getting smarter, leaving less scope for getting things so badly wrong. The Chinese government recently and lamentably introduced measures to standardize translations. Of course, every so often we hear of horrendous stories of mistranslation, as in the case with the lists of ridiculous and outrageously funny Chinglish signs, which have entertained the Internet for years. ![]() So much so that some prominent enthusiasts publicly advocate doing away with language learning in school. With all the buzz around advances of Artificial Intelligence (AI), astounding progress in speech recognition, and appearance of on-the-fly translation technologies – like Google’s latest translation earbuds – we are seemingly on the brink of a new revolution in global communication. ![]()
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