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LE INTELLIGENZE ARTIFICIALI sono tantissime e tra loro molto diverse. Prendiamo da qui in avanti l’acronimo AI (Artificial Intelligence) buono per tutte e diamo un’occhiata a un po’ di esempi. Come questo: Google che ha spostato il suo Translate da un sistema “a forza bruta” a uno di machine learning (con le reti neurali). Gli sviluppi saranno interessanti.

Money quote: “This memory sprang to mind with the recent news that the Google Translate engine would move from a phrase-based system to a neural network. (The technical differences are described here.) Both methods rely on training the machine with a ‘corpus’ consisting of sentence pairs: an original and a translation. The computer then generates rules for inferring, based on the sequence of words in the original text, the most likely sequence of words from the target language.”