“Am I imagining it, or do they just not sound like RNN translations?” You’re imagining it. Google translate is about as bad as he’s saying. The translations ar

“Am I imagining it, or do they just not sound like RNN translations?” You’re imagining it. Google translate is about as bad as he’s saying. The translations are usually servicable for short phrases, but quickly fall apart for anything with depth or nuance. The Google paper was an interesing technical description, but pretty weak in terms of evaluation: it had a single experiment, based on simple, short phrases, evaluated in a subjective manner by “experts”. It shouldn’t be surprising at all to find out that the method was a bit overhyped. It’s quite possible that Google did greatly improve their performance...it just wasn’t very good to begin with.