Re:炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit...
by setopt on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:31AM
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Google Translate hallucinates as well.
It’s particularly obvious if you translate between languages with vastly different grammar, e.g. Korean -> English, since Korean doesn’t require a subject per sentence but English does – so Google Translate then sometimes just inserts random subjects from its training data into the translated text. ChatGPT, by understanding more of the context before each sentence in a long text, seems to do this less.
For stuff like French -> English or German -> English where there is “no missing info” per sentence to create grammatically correct sentences, so that it doesn’t need to rely on context to translate correctly, Google Translate is great.
It’s particularly obvious if you translate between languages with vastly different grammar, e.g. Korean -> English, since Korean doesn’t require a subject per sentence but English does – so Google Translate then sometimes just inserts random subjects from its training data into the translated text. ChatGPT, by understanding more of the context before each sentence in a long text, seems to do this less.
For stuff like French -> English or German -> English where there is “no missing info” per sentence to create grammatically correct sentences, so that it doesn’t need to rely on context to translate correctly, Google Translate is great.