For years, Google Translate showed gender bias by associating gender-neutral jobs to a particular gender: a doctor to male and a nurse to female. In 2018, the search giant addressed that problem by providing a translation in both genders for sentences in a gender-neutral language like Turkish. Yesterday, Google’s AI team released a new model that’s more scalable — meaning it can be applied to translate phrases in other languages. This new rollout brings support for gender-specific translations from English to Spanish and from Finnish, Hungarian, and Persian to English. In a blog post, the company explained when it applied the old…

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