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I've used ChatGPT 3.5 (not 4, too expensive) to translate most of the Latin writings of Jerome, Ambrose, and Ambrosiaster (from Migne's Patrologia Latina) - the
by emeth 3y ago
I've used ChatGPT 3.5 (not 4, too expensive) to translate most of the Latin writings of Jerome, Ambrose, and Ambrosiaster (from Migne's Patrologia Latina) - the translations have been put in this repo in the public domain:
https://github.com/HistoricalChristianFaith/Writings-Database https://github.com/HistoricalChristianFaith/Writings-Databas...
Some takeaways:
- ChatGPT did excellent with about 3 sentences max at a time. Exceeding 3 sentences would cause it to often truncate the response (e.g. translating 3ish of 5 sentences, or hallucinating more).
- ChatGPT would originally return the translation, sometimes randomly prefixed with a variant of "The translation is" and sometimes wrapped in quotes, othertimes not. Using the function interface to ChatGPT eliminated this problem.
- When it comes to quotations from Bible verses, ChatGPT sometimes "embellished" (not sure what else to call it). E.g. if part of Ephesians 2:7 is quoted in Latin, in the English ChatGPT would sometimes insert Ephesians 2:7-8 in full.
- idopmstuff 3y agoI don't really understand what the value in posting these kinds of takeaways about using GPT3.5 here is. GPT4 is significantly better, and improved models are coming. There's just not a lot of point to benchmarking 3.5 when likely every issue you've pointed out is solved by 4.
- emeth 3y agoAverage cost to translate an entire work in that repo via GPT3.5 = ~$2 Average cost to translate an entire work in that repo via GPT4 = ~$40 For a side-project, one is feasible to scale, and one ain't.
- telotortium 3y agoCould also try Claude-2, as the OP did.