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AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation

22 January 2018

Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation

Automatic sign language translators turn signing into text

2 June 2017

Translation devices are being put to work in places like banks to help deaf people talk to non-signers

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AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation

Automatic sign language translators turn signing into text

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