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Machine translation is no where near solved.

Machine translation is still one of the most funded areas in NLP, and the quality is still incredibly bad for many language pairs. DARPA has been running one machine translation grant program or another for more than a decade.

It is true that some of the best systems take a long time to translate sentences (on the order of 1 cpu-minute or more). But their quality is still not anywhere near human level for most languages.