Google Translate started when the search team wanted results in any language. Within six years, they built translation across 64 languages that often beat human translators. The system now handles roughly 4,000 languages and translates instantly for free.
Six years.
64 languages.
Instant and free.
"Something like 4,000 languages."
So we thought it would be great if we could provide search results from any language for any query. And so we really focused on that problem. We focused on it and we developed Google Translate and we found some machine learning researchers and we said, do you think you can translate between any languages and do it better than an average human translator? They laughed at us. They said, no, we can't possibly do that, but they actually were willing to try. And six years later we can translate between 64 languages. And it's amazing, actually, many languages were better than an average human translating. We do it instantly and for free between those 64 languages. We can translate between any two of the languages. So we have something like 4,000 languages we can translate between. I guess I'm tremendously optimistic that whatever things we try to challenge, whatever challenges we try to take on, we can solve with a little bit of concerted effort and some good technology.
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