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Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by usaar333 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:56PM (#41370615)
LLMs are extremely good at translation, given that the transformer was literally built for that.
Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by cj on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:33PM (#41371089)
Maybe in some cases. But generally speaking the consensus in the language translation industry is that NMT (e.g. Google Translate) still provides higher quality than current gen LLMs.
Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by cubefox on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:03PM (#41374632)
Why? Already ChatGPT-3.5 seemed better to me than Google Translate when I compared them a while ago.
Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:06PM (#41374661)
Is it? Anecdotally, even GPT 3.5 felt better than Google Translate; where we are with GPT-4o, it feels both better in terms of quality, accuracy and context awareness and it has a much better UI/UX. Like, I can't tell Google Translate it picked the wrong translation for a specific phrase (I thing I could in the past, but this feature seems missing), or otherwise inform it of extra context.

(Also LLMs are wonderful at solving the "tip of my tongue" problem - "what's the English word for $this doing $that, kind of like $example1 but without $aspect1?...")

Re:Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude... by cj on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:16PM (#41374718)
It’s entirely possible that the language translation industry is trailing behind.

It’s also possible that the cost of LLMs outweigh their benefit for this specific use case.

The only vendor I know of doing LLM translation in production is DeepL, and only supports 3 languages, launched last week.