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Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by tkgally on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:52PM (#34800234)
I worked as a translator for many years and have been following developments in machine translation closely. In my opinion, ChatGPT does represent a significant advance for machine translation. If you have the time to watch it, I made a video about the topic last week:

https://youtu.be/najKN2bXqCo

Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by Baeocystin on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:08AM (#34800639)
Thanks for sharing this.
Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by krackers on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @02:10AM (#34800939)
This is a wonderful video, thank you for posting it. It had never even occurred to me to try ChatGPT for translation purposes. I wonder how well it does with slang? That's one area where all machine translate is lacking, probably because its training corpus doesn't contain it.
Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by og_kalu on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:53PM (#34808733)
Hey you might this. Bilingual LLMs really are human level translators. I don't know why this frankly mindblowing fact isn't discussed or researched more but they are.

https://github.com/ogkalu2/Human-parity-on-machine-translati...

Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by tkgally on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @08:37PM (#34813809)
Thanks for posting that. The results do look good.

The examples are all short and from expository prose passages, though. Do you have any longer examples that include dialog, so the translator has to infer pronoun reference, the identities of speakers in conversations, and other narrative-dependent information? As I show in my video, that’s where ChatGPT is superior to Google Translate et al.—at least with Japanese to English.

Re:What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? by og_kalu on Friday February 24, 2023 @10:17PM (#34933471)
That's a good point. I was just kind of randomly plowing through so i didn't pick any dialogue scene specifically. Don't think it'll fail there though.