When Google Translate Came Alive

Google, in 2016: Within a single group, we see a sentence with the same meaning but from three different languages. This means the network must be encoding something about the semantics of the sentence rather than simply memorizing phrase-to-phrase translations. We interpret this as a sign of existence of an interlingua in the network. Exsqueeze me? But, Gedalyah Reback explains that Google’s…