Question

Select the correct sentence in the passage.

Which sentence best supports the idea that artificial and human translators are comparable?
A Computer Can Now Translate Languages as Well as a Human

by Vanessa Bates Ramirez (excerpt)

In other words, it’s finally happened: computers are smarter than people. In a contest that tested the new software against human translators, it came close to matching the fluency of humans for some languages. People fluent in two languages scored the new system between 64 and 87 percent better than the previous one. Google is already using the new system for Chinese to English translation and plans to completely replace its existing translation technique with the GMNT.

Answer 1

Answer: In a contest that tested the new software against human translators, it came close to matching the fluency of humans for some languages.

Step-by-step explanation: Because they are close to matching fluency, they are very similar, and therefore comparable.