As of June 2023, Google Translate supports 133 languages at various levels, and as of April 2016, claimed over 500 million total users, with more than 100 billion words translated daily, after the company stated in May 2013 that it served over 200 million people daily. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, and an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications.

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. November 15, 2016 6 years ago ( ) (as neural machine translation) The sentence length limitation also shouldn’t pose too much of a problem in the real world, since cuneiform tends to be divided up into manageable sections on the clay tablets.April 28, 2006 17 years ago ( ) (as statistical machine translation) However, in the majority of cases, the translation produced by the program had a high degree of accuracy, particularly with more formal texts like royal decrees. As we know, hallucinations are an occupational hazard of working with AI. The program is not perfect – it works best with shorter sentences of 118 characters or fewer, and it did occasionally produce “hallucinations”, strings of perfectly correct English that unfortunately bore no resemblance to the Akkadian it was supposed to be translating. Sometimes, even experts cannot figure out the proper sign value.”

As the authors explain, each individual glyph can have one of three different functions, which greatly expands the number of possible translations for a piece of text: “For example, the sign 'UD,' originally a pictograph of the Sun(-god), has more than 17 phonetic and 6 logographic values that can only be securely read in context. The model that used the transliterated text performed slightly better, which is perhaps unsurprising. Helpfully, the authors cracked this first step in a previous study, with a machine-learning approach that could transliterate and segment Unicode cuneiform with 97 percent accuracy. The other requires the cuneiform to first be transliterated into the Latin alphabet – this is the usual first step for human translators when approaching these documents.

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