Re:Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120...
by Rebelgecko on Monday August 14, 2023 @12:00AM
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What about going the other way? I'm on chat gpt3.5 FWIW, but when I ask it to translate simple phrases from English to Toki Pona (electric car, barking dog, etc) it hallucinates words that aren't in the ~120 word dictionary I found.
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Re:Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120...
by coder543 on Monday August 14, 2023 @12:08AM
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As you noticed, ChatGPT3.5 is extremely prone to hallucination. It can still happen on ChatGPT4, but it is much less frequent, in my experience.
Here is what I got on the first try: https://chat.openai.com/share/88b0358e-c96d-4880-b939-7c62cf...
The answers seem plausible, and the words are actual Toki Pona words.
My special instructions have nothing to do with language or translation, but for the sake of transparency I did it a second time with custom instructions disabled: https://chat.openai.com/share/b85a59d9-2678-45c8-8c2e-8b8a80...
Regardless, there is a very limited dictionary to work with in Toki Pona, so communicating extremely specific ideas seems like it is always going to be problematic. The language doesn’t even have a specific word for “dog”.