>The article gives the impression that the software already exists. The idea, of learning from already-finished translations, is interesting, but I doubt that a machine can be intelligent enough to do this with a sufficient quality, i.e., to produce acceptable translations. Let's just hope that people don't rely too much on this technology - lest a misunderstanding spark the Third World War.

And let's hope the world's lingua franca will not be English, because it can produce misunderstandings by itself :).