Playing Around with Machine Translation

Re:Playing Around with Machine Translation by cj on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:24PM (#37513603)

I wrote a much longer reply but looks like you deleted the downvoted comment and reposted it.

> It's not more consistent.

I think the parent was probably saying for a given input, Google MT provides the same output.

What is the value of temperature/variability in a LLM powered MT model?

I’d assume given the same inputs, you should only be given the best output.

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Re:Playing Around with Machine Translation by og_kalu on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:37PM (#37513778)

>I think the parent was probably saying for a given input, Google MT provides the same output.

I don't care about being given the exact same output (you're not getting deterministic translations from people either). I care about quality translations. Variability for GPT style translations is much more about word choice and style than wrong or extremely different translations. and if i really wanted to, i could guide both (word choice, style) either with instructions or examples.

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Re:Playing Around with Machine Translation by naniwaduni on Thursday September 14, 2023 @05:06PM (#37514850)

Good news! Per your second link, GPT-4 is a stunning improvement up to "borderline passes quality control"!

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