“And quite frankly, none of us know exactly why,” he said. He also admitted that like some of the innermost workings of the brain, the phenomenon is a mystery to Microsoft. Taken a step further, when the system is taught Spanish, it learns Spanish and “gets great at both Mandarin and English,” said Nadella. Then you teach it Mandarin, it learns Mandarin, but it becomes better at English.” While explaining transfer learning, Nadella said, “What happens is, say, you teach it English. At the heart of the demo is neural net technology from Microsoft Research that enables a feature called “transfer learning.”

On May 27, during the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Gurdeep Pall, corporate vice president of Skype and Lync, showed how Skype Translator can provide near-real-time translation service. Microsoft unveiled a new technology called Skype Translator that may soon eliminate one of the biggest roadblocks in interpersonal communications.

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