I think translation isn't an isolated problem. I mean by that that we might not be able to solve translation alone, and probably will need an almost exact machi

I think translation isn't an isolated problem. I mean by that that we might not be able to solve translation alone, and probably will need an almost exact machine reproduction of the human thinking process to correctly translate something. For any mildly complex concept, heuristics, context analysis, pattern matching and word databases won't be enough to match two exact sentences in different languages. Even a sentence like 'I felt sick watching him treating his partner this way' will need an extreme lot of intelligence to correctly parse and convey in a different language. If in 100 years AI really reaches the holy grail and we have actual artifical intelligence, translation will be a solved problem. Now, will we be able to reach that goal in 100 years ? I hope, but that's not a given I think.