3 ms·

After playing around with this model a bit, it seems to have a tendency to reply to English questions in Chinese.

by Reubend 2y ago

darkerside 2y ago
Do you know? Are most LLMs trained in a single or multiple languages? Just curious.
- cchance 2y ago
  Yes multilanguage helps to avoid overfitting
thaumasiotes 2y ago
To be fair, that's a pretty common human behavior in my experience. ;p It also appears to be intentional: > [Q:] Do you understand English? > [A:] 您好！我是由腾讯开发的腾讯元宝（Tencent Yuanbao），当前基于混元大模型（Hunyuan-T1）为您服务。我主要使用中文进行交互，但也具备一定的英文理解能力。您可以用中文或英文随时与我交流，我会尽力为您提供帮助~ 若有特定需求，也可以随时告知我切换更适配的模型哦！ In relevant part: > I mainly use Chinese to interact, but also have a certain ability to understand English. You can use Chinese or English to communicate with me at any time, [and] I will do my utmost to offer you assistance~
yawnxyz 2y ago
As someone who frequently thinks in both English and Chinese, I wonder if this "proves" that the Whorfian hypothesis is correct, or maybe at least more efficient?
- lucb1e 2y ago
  Saving others a web search for some random name... > Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. [...] Various colloquialisms refer to linguistic relativism: the Whorf hypothesis; the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis; the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis; and Whorfianism. [...] Sapir [and] Whorf never co-authored any works and never stated their ideas in terms of a hypothesis The current state of which seems to be: > research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting a weaker version of linguistic relativity: that a language's structures influence a speaker's perceptions, without strictly limiting or obstructing them. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
cubefox 2y ago
Its system prompt says it should reply in Chinese. I saw it discussing its prompt in the thinking process.

After playing around with this model a bit, it seems to have a tendency to reply to English questions in Chinese.

darkerside 2y ago

Do you know? Are most LLMs trained in a single or multiple languages? Just curious.

cchance 2y ago
Yes multilanguage helps to avoid overfitting

thaumasiotes 2y ago

To be fair, that's a pretty common human behavior in my experience. ;p It also appears to be intentional: > [Q:] Do you understand English? > [A:] 您好！我是由腾讯开发的腾讯元宝（Tencent Yuanbao），当前基于混元大模型（Hunyuan-T1）为您服务。我主要使用中文进行交互，但也具备一定的英文理解能力。您可以用中文或英文随时与我交流，我会尽力为您提供帮助~ 若有特定需求，也可以随时告知我切换更适配的模型哦！ In relevant part: > I mainly use Chinese to interact, but also have a certain ability to understand English. You can use Chinese or English to communicate with me at any time, [and] I will do my utmost to offer you assistance~

yawnxyz 2y ago

As someone who frequently thinks in both English and Chinese, I wonder if this "proves" that the Whorfian hypothesis is correct, or maybe at least more efficient?

lucb1e 2y ago
Saving others a web search for some random name... > Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. [...] Various colloquialisms refer to linguistic relativism: the Whorf hypothesis; the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis; the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis; and Whorfianism. [...] Sapir [and] Whorf never co-authored any works and never stated their ideas in terms of a hypothesis The current state of which seems to be: > research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting a weaker version of linguistic relativity: that a language's structures influence a speaker's perceptions, without strictly limiting or obstructing them. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

cubefox 2y ago

Its system prompt says it should reply in Chinese. I saw it discussing its prompt in the thinking process.