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This is pretty amazing, we could potentially use it to bring back dead languages. Currently we have a basic example of how ancient Egyptian would sound like bec
by foxandmouse 4y ago
This is pretty amazing, we could potentially use it to bring back dead languages. Currently we have a basic example of how ancient Egyptian would sound like because of the rosetta stone, but we could create a data model relating ancient Egyptian to what we already know of demotic and the other contemporary languages of the time (which we do know how to pronounce)
Good candidate words for this kind of correspondence are things like city or place names, people's/ruler's names and so forth.
However using poetry we can establish which words the people felt rhymed and hence that lets us better establish the phoneme sounds. Additionally jokes and plays on words can help us find homophones in the target language too.
- drowsspa 4y agoI don't think you need ChatGPT for that, that's probably already the approach scolars use.
- nonameiguess 4y agoCan this system even produce sound? I just tried to ask it if it can understand the internal phonetic alphabet, and instead of answering, it spun for five minutes and then reported an error message with a link to OpenAI's help center.
- lgas 4y agoThose error messages are random due to load or whatever other external factors. Some things do seem more likely to trigger them than others, but I've always been able to get the things that failed to work eventually.
- int_19h 4y ago"Whenever you answer me in English, you shall write how what you say is pronounced using the International Phonetic Alphabet." "Yes, I will do that. (yɛs, aɪ wɪl dʊ ðæt)" "Tell me about yourself." "I am a digital assistant designed to provide answers to a wide range of questions. (aɪ əm ə dɪdʒɪtl əsɪstənt dɪzaɪnd tə prəvajd ənsərz tə ə waɪd ræŋ əv kwɛstʃnz)" "Assume that English had the world "margepilous". Say it." "margepilous (mɑːrdʒpajləs)"