Facebook uses neural networks to translate posts

Facebook has revealed it is harnessing the power of AI to support its growth across the world. The social media giant, which has over two billion users worldwide, is now using neural networks for to automatically translate content in foreign markets. In a blog post detailing the switch, Facebook says it went from using phrase-based machine translation model to neural networks, and so far has seen an 11 percent increase in the accuracy of machine translation. The biggest disadvantage of a phrase-based model was that it broke down sentences into individual words or phrases. When translating them, the system could only consider a couple… [Continue Reading]