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A comment on GPT-4.

Re:GPT-4 by mzs on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @01:54PM (#35155577)
Today's submarine from the NYT is hilariously unintentionally unflattering, did someone even proof read this? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/openai-new-gpt...

  Mnemonics to learn basic words:
  Hola:"Hola, cola" - sounds like "cola" (Coke)
  Adiós: "Adiós, my toes" - rhymes with "toes"
  Gracias: "Gracias, grassy ass" - sounds like "grassy ass"
  Mañana: "Mañana, banana" - rhymes with "banana"
  Uno: "Uno, you know" - sounds like "you know"
  Tres: "Tres, dress" - rhymes with "dress"

  Conjugation of the verbs:
  Ser (To be)

  • Yo soy
  • Tú eres
  • Él/Ella/Usted es
  • Nosotros/Nosotras somos
  • Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes son
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Re:GPT-4 by steve_adams_86 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:09PM (#35155877)
> Mañana: "Mañana, banana" - rhymes with "banana"

Uh... Almost?

> Gracias: "Gracias, grassy ass" - sounds like "grassy ass"

This seems like it would encourage very coarse pronunciation with a very obnoxious accent.

Overall this appears remarkably bad. I'm not sure why they would want this to be public visible yet.

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Re:GPT-4 by osculum on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:57PM (#35158453)
Mañana does rhyme with banana, what do you mean?

But yeah, the mnemonics are awful.

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Re:GPT-4 by hanifc on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:44PM (#35159299)
Probably depends on the accent you have. I'm from the US, and the way I say 'banana' doesn't rhyme with mañana, but I can imagine my English friends saying it, which would rhyme.
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Re:GPT-4 by dimatura on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:37PM (#35156392)
Yeah, not great, these pronunciation hints kind of sound like what a naive english speaker would guess just from looking at the words (and similarly, like a beginner speaker with a heavy english accent).
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Re:GPT-4 by ljclifford on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:25PM (#35156206)
Next token prediction is remarkably bad at mnemonic generation, even in English. Add another, lower-resourced language, and it will be really bad. For what it's worth 'cola' does rhyme with 'hola' and 'you know' rhymes with 'uno', but none of the other combos are even rhymes.
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Re:GPT-4 by joe5150 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:45PM (#35159327)
it says "uno" sounds like "you know", which is incorrect.
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