Lingusitics Japanese Translation Issues with Google Translate

[Hornbein]

Japanese is a challenge for Google Translate. "Jazz club" was translated to "Cannabis." Hmm, maybe they've got something there.

They also produced this:

"Space networks have a strange gravity
I'm starting to think after I graduated with an amusing horse"

 

[fresh_42]

I just found out that Russian ain't much better.



I observed an interesting side effect. After I looked up some words in a different dictionary, an abbreviation on Wikipedia, and returned to Google Translate again, it actually had the correct translation that time. AI involved or just the usual espionage from Google?

Edit: It wasn't so surprising that the second attempt gave a better translation. But that it resolved MGU correctly as Moscow State university after I looked it up on Wikipedia was what puzzled me!

 

[Vanadium 50]

Unlike humans. Now I am going to drink a tall cool glass of Pocari Sweat.

 

[Hornbein]

Riyoko Takagi on Flight of the Bumble Bee, in translation:

"High-speed and superior skills for arranging tall wood"

 

[Pythagorean]

Anything that has inflection is going to be tough for static translators. Try GPT.