 BBC News | Start-up firm Duolingo bets on human translators over machines Economic Times Language does not come naturally to machines. Unlike humans, computers cannot easily distinguish between, say, a river bank and a savings bank. Satire and jokes? Algorithms have great trouble with that. Irony? Wordplay? Cultural context? Forget it. Duolingo: Learn a Language While Translating the Web The evolution of those annoying online security tests Language students challenge Google Translate |