I really have to disagree. Machine translation is utterly terrible, and appears to be optimising for the wrong thing. All the progress seems to be in making it

I really have to disagree. Machine translation is utterly terrible, and appears to be optimising for the wrong thing. All the progress seems to be in making it produce output that makes sense, rather than producing output that conveys the same meaning as the source document. Almost every time I've tried to use machine translation for something serious, the meaning of the text has been garbled or reversed. This is not "adequate" unless your only goal is to produce something that looks like it could be correct, without regard for whether it is.