Zero-shot transfer across 93 languages
Tangent: I've always wondered if there would be utility in humans gaining expertise in writing "for" translation, i.e. knowing what kinds of semantic and syntactic constructs are the least lossy when localized, or perhaps even learning to write in some intermediate, non-native-human language whose reduced feature set guarantees a certain level of translatability.I suppose the answer might be that machine translation will improve fast enough that such a field wouldn't have time to emerge. But I always think that using humans to intelligently fill gaps in machine competency is a neat solution!