Just a datapoint regarding the supposed hyping of the recent Google Translate NN switch. Last year I tried translating some everyday text from Turkish to Engli

Just a datapoint regarding the supposed hyping of the recent Google Translate NN switch. Last year I tried translating some everyday text from Turkish to English. Complete garbage, you could barely understand even what they were talking about. I tried it now, albeit with different texts, and there's a world of a difference. Now you can actually understand what the text is saying, even if compared to other languages, I would still classify the Turkish->English translation as awful. Another big difference is that the resulting English text has relatively good grammer, as opposed to the previous version which was a broken English word soup.