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Re: Mistral Le Chat

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Post by lloeki »

tuyiown wrote: post #11
Kuinox wrote: post #7

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"

Wait, that was my joke!

https://imgur.com/a/PCqFjOQ

(apologies to Geluck)

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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Post by shafyy »

Kuinox wrote: post #7
growt wrote: post #6

For everyone not speaking french: "le chat" in french translates to "the cat". So I guess that's a play on words that works given the context and probably the mostly not native french audience.

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

I don't think it's possible that a Francophone pronounces an English word without a "french pronounciation" :-D <3

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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Post by afiori »

growt wrote: post #6

For everyone not speaking french: "le chat" in french translates to "the cat". So I guess that's a play on words that works given the context and probably the mostly not native french audience.

I like to think of it as partially owning how chatGPT sounds like "Cat, I farted"

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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Post by tkgally »

ritonlajoie wrote: post #23

FYI This is a public beta with a wait list. I was not able to access directly.

Same here. When I try to log into Le Chat, I get a message saying “You are on the waitlist. We will let you know when you can start using the app.”

I have been using the Mistral API for the past couple of months, and earlier today I updated my links to use the new endpoints [1]. The small and medium models worked fine through the API, but for several hours the large model failed to respond. When I tried the large model again just now, though, it was working.

It’s evening here in Japan, so I’ll start evaluating the large model’s performance tomorrow.

[1] https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/changelog/

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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Post by anshumankmr »

It's knowledge cutoff is 2021. Mistral needs to have it trained a bit more, (and I am sure they are) but it should be available to use.

It might actually happen soon cause they have a deal with Microsoft in place.

Re: Mistral Le Chat

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Post by growt »

incorrecthorse wrote: post #10
growt wrote: post #6

For everyone not speaking french: "le chat" in french translates to "the cat". So I guess that's a play on words that works given the context and probably the mostly not native french audience.

Genuinely curious, what context would explain something relating to a cat? My first reaction as a French native speaker was to read it as "the chat", considering that "chat" is a well-known Anglicism in French.

Yes in that context it's pretty clear, but if you encounter the word "chat" in any french text, wouldn't you normally assume that it means the animal? I have a similar example in german: The word "Fee" in german means "fairy" and when we used it to promote a product in the past, someone who came from a financial background read it as the english "fee" and was pretty confused about that sentence :)
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