You really should read this article. Here’s an excerpt:
Translate got smart. It developed the ability to learn from the people
who used it. It learned how to make educated guesses about the content,
tone, and meaning of phrases based on the context of other words and
phrases around them. And — here’s the bit that should make your brain
explode — it got creative.
Google Translate invented its own language to help it translate more effectively.What’s more, nobody told it to. It didn’t develop a language (or interlingua,
as Google call it) because it was coded to. It developed a new language
because the software determined over time that this was the most
efficient way to solve the problem of translation.
Stop
and think about that for a moment. Let it sink in. A neural computing
system designed to translate content from one human language into
another developed its own internal language to make the task more
efficient. Without being told to do so. In a matter of weeks.”