With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence revolution, deep learning is undoubtedly injecting new vitality into machine translation technology. In the context of artificial intelligence, teachers must find new and effective teaching ideas to improve the actual effect of translation teaching, which has drawn the attention of university teachers in recent years. With the development of society and the change of the times, English is becoming one of the implicit requirements of society for talents. Not only in the context of the new changes in curriculum, English teaching in schools and teachers is no longer limited to examinations, but more importantly, it is also significant to cultivate students’ comprehensive English ability so that they can really use their English knowledge and solve practical problems in life. On this basis, this paper investigates the practice of teaching English in college in the context of artificial intelligence.