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gwern on Aug 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Transitioning entirely to neural machine translati...

Google switched Google Translate over just last year, November 2016. Considering Facebook is developing all this internally and the scale they operate at and the presumable hardware disadvantages (does FB have any equivalent of Google's TPUs?), switching over in production so quickly is impressive.

kuschku on Aug 3, 2017 [–]

Only for very few language pairs, though. But for those translation massively improved, especially for German the old solution was basically unusable.

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