AI and Language Translation

A number of products seem to have put AI into people's hands in areas that AI seems to be showing pretty impressive results. For many years, we would have very constrained AI systems that could do things like beat Gary Kasparov at chess but had a really hard time translating a Spanish book into English. Now we've had a wave of these systems based around so-called neural nets that actually seem to have a great deal of success at some of these very human problems.