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> You can even try dog breeds like ‘hound,’ ‘poodle,’ or my favorite ‘samoyed.’ It pretty much just works. But that’s not all; it also works for other languages. Try ‘chien’ and even ‘犬’1!

Can anyone explain how this language translation works? The magic is in the embeddings of course, but how does it work, how does it translate ~all words across all languages?




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