Maybe look at the progress we have made in last twenty years? Yes, there are examples of machine translation failing miserably, but it has also reached a level

Maybe look at the progress we have made in last twenty years? Yes, there are examples of machine translation failing miserably, but it has also reached a level which allow people to actually use it for communication (as evidenced in real life and mentioned in the article). I think that's already quite an achievement. We should not be too harsh on computers. Humans are not perfect either. Instead of judging machine translation based on few random cases, we should be evaluating against number of human translators of various experience levels.