Is Google Translate turned into a Doomsday Prophet?

Google Translate has been acting oddly lately. This is not an opinion based on obtaining a slightly shifted translation from time to time, or even to get one that is only half-way through. accurate. Google Translate spits out what appears to be biblical Apocalyptic Bible prophecies and matching messages that are completely out of the wall. As applications sometimes do, something in the code becomes somewhat scrambled, or a new learning changes the way an application responds to input, but seeing the change as drastic as it is now is so completely abstract and stranger who has become a messenger of misfortune.

On social media, people have posted screenshots of what messages they came back from the app and the results are both humorous, and a little disturbing sometimes. No matter who can try it on his devices by simply typing a random combination of two or three letters and letting the application do the rest. The more the combination of letters is repeated, the more the translation is detailed. For example, typing "dog" 19 times with a space between each entry gives the translation: "Doomsday Clock has three minutes to noon.We live characters and dramatic developments in the world, which indicate that we are approaching more and more of end time and the return of Jesus. "

Of course, sometimes you have to play with the setting language to get results. For example, in the "dog" example, you must set the language on the left-hand side for Maori. Sometimes it works with the default detection language setting. The most different things you try, the weirder translations you get.

Although there has been some speculation on social media that Google Translate has been possessed by demons, ghosts, or has become a real tool for God. , the real answer is much simpler than that. It's just the way the app learns, and the learning is flawed. Google spokesman Justin Burr told Nextweb exactly what's going on.

"Google Translate learns examples of translations on the web and does not use" private messages "to perform system translations even having access to this content. </ P> entry of nonsense into the system, to which nonsense is generated. "

Andrew Rush, assistant professor at Harvard, who studies natural language processing and computer translation, tells Motherboard essentially what Rush says, but in more complex terms. Rush describes that the AI ​​that runs the translation system for Google is trained to try to do something human from any given input. The translation that it creates makes no sense, but it works within the limits of its programming and learning capabilities.

Between Burr and Rush, the idea that the Google Translate AI has evolved to the point that it has adopted religion and is now spreading the word of a divine entity is not what happens. It's just a hole in the learning curve of the application, and in time it is predicted that it will learn to react to a strange input better. For the moment, most people who have been trying to get weird responses from the app say that it is fun.