Honestly, it's hard to imagine a world without Google Translate these days.  I used to use it a fair bit for work when I needed to double check something for my FLSA requirements, and it's interesting to reminisce on how it's evolved from just a simple "how do you say this word" old website into the elaborate, nuance understanding language tool it is today. You can use the app to have a full on conversation with someone.  You can use the app to use the camera and live translate text it sees ( not going to admit to having to have used that during a proficiency exam ). And when you think about it, this ' how can I understand what you're saying so I can tell you how to say it in a way someone else understands it ' is some fundamental pieces to what we use today in AI.  I remember articles talking about how Google's Translate 'invented' a language to be that intermediary language; so that to translate from English to Spanish, it was taking that...