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You are aware that insofar as AI chat apps are "hallucinatory text generator(s)", then so is Google Translate, right? (while AFAICT Google hasn't explicitly sa
by akavi 10mo ago
You are aware that insofar as AI chat apps are "hallucinatory text generator(s)", then so is Google Translate, right?
(while AFAICT Google hasn't explicitly said so, it's almost certainly also powered by an autoregressive transformer model, just like ChatGPT)
- swiftcoder 10mo ago> it's almost certainly also powered by an autoregressive transformer model, just like ChatGPT The objective of that model, however, is quite different to that of an LLM.
- parliament32 10mo agoI have seen Google Translate hallucinate exactly zero times over thousands of queries over the years. Meanwhile, LLMs emit garbage roughly 1/3 of the time, in my experience. Can you provide an example of Translate hallucinating something?
- Teever 10mo agoEvery single time it mistranslates something it is hallucinations.
- lazide 10mo agoAgreed, and I use G translate daily to handle living in a country where 95% of the population doesn’t speak any language I do. It occasionally messes up, but not by hallucinating, usually grammar salad because what I put into it was somewhat ambiguous. It’s also terrible with genders in Romance languages, but then that is a nightmare for humans too. Palmada palmada bot.
- fouc 10mo agoGoogle Translate hasn't moved to LLM-style translation yet, unfortunately