impossible → routine
Translation at human accuracy
Translating news text from one language into another as accurately as a human translator.
Impossible
Microsoft reports human parity on Chinese-to-English news translation, for one language pair on one test set.
newstest2017, judged by bilingual evaluators
source4 years, 3 months
Routine
Meta open-sources NLLB-200, one model translating 200 languages, with its benchmark and training code.
200 languages; 44% better BLEU than the previous state of the art
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