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MrPlow [soylentnews.org] writes:

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The program uses state-of-the-art AI techniques, but simple tests show that it's a long way from real understanding.

It is a bit on the long side but Douglas Hofstadter very clearly exposes what language translation is and that Google Translate does not do it that way

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/#hn?single_page=true [theatlantic.com]

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