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The video is full of silly puns using the Japanese words for “head,” “hat,” etc. Such puns can be impossible to translate, but the translator of the YouTube sub
by tkgally 3y ago
The video is full of silly puns using the Japanese words for “head,” “hat,” etc. Such puns can be impossible to translate, but the translator of the YouTube subtitles did an excellent job of matching similar English expressions to them. For example [1]:
ウェアラブルなおかげでキーボードの中でのおしゃれ度は頭一つ抜けてますね。
Wearaburu na okage de kībōdo no naka de no osharedo wa atama hitotsu nuketemasu ne.
Awkward direct translation: Thanks to its wearability, its fashionability among keyboards sticks out by one head [≈ atama hitotsu nuketemasu].
YouTube subtitle: The fact that it’s wearable makes it head and shoulders above the rest.
I assume that the translator of those subtitles was human. But GPT-4 does a respectable job of handling that pun, too [2].
[1] https://youtu.be/6vib77CUxNM?si=sWTiZvSuP5L7LBfT&t=83 https://youtu.be/6vib77CUxNM?si=sWTiZvSuP5L7LBfT&t=83
[2] https://gally.net//temp/20231006gptpuntranslation/index.html https://gally.net//temp/20231006gptpuntranslation/index.html
- xg15 3y agoGoogle is once again miles ahead of the competition here.
- deno 3y agoWhat if you don’t tell it there’s a pun? Would it recognize it on its own?
- tkgally 3y agoGood question. I gave GPT-4 the transcript of the video as well as three screenshots and asked it to characterize both the product and the language used. You can see the full exchange here: https://gally.net//temp/20231006gptpuntranslation/index2.html https://gally.net//temp/20231006gptpuntranslation/index2.htm... It does pretty well overall, and it notes the use of “puns and wordplay.” However, its explanations of several of the jokes are wrong. For example, the last one, about the word 帽子 (hat), has nothing to do with the sound of the word まぁ (well). Rather, it is a play on two meanings of the verb kaburu, which appears in the previous line. In previous tests of GPT-4’s language competence, I have often seen it hallucinate about how words are pronounced. It’s very good explaining the meanings of words, but spelling and pronunciation—probably because of its token-based training—are weaknesses.
- karambahh 3y agoI strongly suspect it's human made, as the french subtitles are full of (sometimes very subtle) puns as well. Kudos to whoever went the extra mile and extended the joke to "smaller" languages.
- teamonkey 3y ago"...or pick your favourite character as your crest" is amazing work, bravo.
- d--b 3y ago"With this hat, keyboard style isn't just ahead, it's a head". GPT seems to know about jokes that are so awfully bad that they are funny.