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I worked as a translator for many years and have been following developments in machine translation closely. In my opinion, ChatGPT does represent a significant
by tkgally 4y ago
I worked as a translator for many years and have been following developments in machine translation closely. In my opinion, ChatGPT does represent a significant advance for machine translation. If you have the time to watch it, I made a video about the topic last week:
https://youtu.be/najKN2bXqCo https://youtu.be/najKN2bXqCo
- Baeocystin 4y agoThanks for sharing this.
- krackers 4y agoThis is a wonderful video, thank you for posting it. It had never even occurred to me to try ChatGPT for translation purposes. I wonder how well it does with slang? That's one area where all machine translate is lacking, probably because its training corpus doesn't contain it.
- famouswaffles 4y agoHey you might this. Bilingual LLMs really are human level translators. I don't know why this frankly mindblowing fact isn't discussed or researched more but they are. https://github.com/ogkalu2/Human-parity-on-machine-translations https://github.com/ogkalu2/Human-parity-on-machine-translati...
- tkgally 4y agoThanks for posting that. The results do look good. The examples are all short and from expository prose passages, though. Do you have any longer examples that include dialog, so the translator has to infer pronoun reference, the identities of speakers in conversations, and other narrative-dependent information? As I show in my video, that’s where ChatGPT is superior to Google Translate et al.—at least with Japanese to English.
- famouswaffles 4y agoThat's a good point. I was just kind of randomly plowing through so i didn't pick any dialogue scene specifically. Don't think it'll fail there though.