Microsoft researchers create AI capable of translating Chinese on par with humans

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Microsoft's Xuedong Huang claims to have 'hit human parity' in English-Chinese machine translation

A team of researchers at Microsoft have created what they believe is the first machine-translation system that can interpret sentences from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as ...

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