Gone are the days where you would break out in a cold sweat when receiving an email written in a foreign natural language. Now you simply open your preferred web browser, call up your favorite machine translation app and, hey presto, you have a somewhat comprehensible translation at your fingertips.
Three years ago, neural network-based translation appeared to give better results than anything researchers developed within the last twenty years. The sentences sound a lot more natural compared with previous translation methods.
