Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error

[EX500rider]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35251478

Google has fixed a bug in an online tool after it began translating "Russian Federation" to "Mordor".
Mordor is the name of a fictional region nicknamed "Land of Shadow" in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books.
In addition, "Russians" was translated to "occupiers" and the surname of Sergey Lavrov, the country's Foreign Minister, to "sad little horse".

The errors had been introduced to Google Translate's Ukrainian to Russian service automatically, Google said.
The terms mirror language used by some Ukrainians following Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Google said that Translate worked by looking for patterns in hundreds of millions of documents but translation remained difficult as the meaning of words was tied to the context in which they were used.
"This means that not all translations are perfect, and there will sometimes be mistakes or mistranslations," the statement added.
"We always work to correct these as quickly as possible when they are brought to our attention."
The bug now appears to have been fixed.

Hahahahaha!!!!

[Igel]

1. Not just any random two-language translation.

Specifically from Ukrainian to Russian.

Rus'ka federatsiya, Lavrov, rosiany 'Russian federation, Lavrov, Russians'.

[Initech]

2. Does that mean Vladimir Putin is Gollem?

He does kind of look like Gollem with his shirt off.

[EX500rider]

4. No, I think he'd be Sauron

[FLPanhandle]

3. That algorithm is smarter than we thought

Maybe Google has become sentient.