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Re: Mistral Le Chat

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many french will call a chat app a "chat" not with the french pronunciation.

I personally make an exception for ChatGPT for the delightful phonetical prononciation that translates to "cat I did fart"

That was a classic when playing on the french Speak & Spell

GPTOPIDQ

8 year olds will laugh at anything.

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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I can't speak French but I know enough to navigate and mostly guess what is being said. I'm so delighted - knowing even a little of another language is still rewarding. One shouldn't be put off by the difficulty of becoming fluent. I may never be fluent but I still think it opens the world up to me that bit more.

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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Very excited for them. Tried it and works quite well. Very evident that each of the foundational model developers need to offer a free chat(till now) interface for RLHF/DPO to improve their models. It's costly for them to run servers, but even higher opportunity cost if they don't do this and offer a free service. Intuitively, I think GPT-4 was very good with various questions because they used the early data from ChatGPT to further finetune/align the model with a good sample of real world queries, the kind only available to them.

As an aside, most of these models are SFTed on GPT 4 generated q&a pairs (if not pretrained on them). When you ask these kind of questions[1], they spill the beans fairly easily and say they are a model of openai. Funnily enough if you ask they are a model trained by Anthropic, it refutes it immediately and ask correctly about being a mistral trained model. Same question about openai, it gives the answer in scr.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/fGEHXH8 PS: First question was to test the reasoning. A quantized model or smaller models answer that as 4 not 5. Mistral answered correctly from a badly given question.

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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post #22

I can't speak French but I know enough to navigate and mostly guess what is being said. I'm so delighted - knowing even a little of another language is still rewarding. One shouldn't be put off by the difficulty of becoming fluent. I may never be fluent but I still think it opens the world up to me that bit more.

There is a language button in the top right, I don't know why OP linked the french version

https://mistral.ai/news/le-chat-mistral/

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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For everyone not speaking French: le means “the” so this is “Mistral the chat” or maybe “The Mistral Chat”. My knowledge of French is limited but it feels right to immediately get ahead of any misunderstandings here for English speakers
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