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I wonder if an LLM can "translate" that book into... something. And if so, how faithful to the original is the translation?
by actionfromafar 1y ago
I wonder if an LLM can "translate" that book into... something. And if so, how faithful to the original is the translation?
- DontchaKnowit 1y agoWhat? Can we start banning these kinds of "I wonder if an LLM" comments?
- actionfromafar 1y agoI actually thought it was an interesting thought, if the "bullshitness" will hold between "translations" or if it will hallucinate something which "makes more sense" than the original. Or if it will just refuse because the chinese letters just aren't close enough. I'm probably too bored. :)
- pavel_lishin 1y agoYou cannot extract a signal that isn't there.
- duskwuff 1y agoThere's also a technical side to that problem - you can't communicate the content of that book to a LLM as text, because it's made up of invented characters. There's no standard way to represent them to a computer.
- palmotea 1y ago> I wonder if an LLM can "translate" that book into... something. Yes, of course. LLMs are bullshit machines. > And if so, how faithful to the original is the translation? Well, as faithful as total bullshit ever is.