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Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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Post by panarky »

Kuinox wrote: post #76
endisneigh wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m curious do you have a reproducible example of this?

I don't have one with an accent right now, but something similar: it refuse to translate from french to english "plaid", but it work with "un plaid", which in this case correctly translate to "a blanket". Edit: I found one with accent, both translation are wrong but one more incorrect than the other: "avoir la chiasse aigue" from french to english. it means "having acute diarrhea". Without the accent, gtranslate tran…

The French term "chiasse" is slang for diarrhea, so the translation to English should also use a slang term for diarrhea.

Maybe a closer translation would be "having a bad case of the runs".

Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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Post by famouswaffles »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #103
famouswaffles wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think this: "Swarming like a swarm of bees. He was carried among the people, hanging from the handle. No matter how good you think about the situation you're in, it's disgusting. Where are you now?" is a comparable translation to this: "No matter how you couch it, riding the subway feels disgusting: you dangle like ripe fruit from a hanging vine, squeezed in among humans swarming like bees." Or this ?: "Being cra…

Using metaphorical or allegorical language as a test isn't that useful. Getting something appropriate is going to be much more up to chance.

>Getting something appropriate is going to be much more up to chance.

Getting something appropriate with GPT-4 is whole lot higher than chance which was kind of the point of all this.

>Using metaphorical or allegorical language as a test isn't that useful.

This is a big chunk of fiction which is most of the text that regularly gets translated. If you're not interested in translating fiction then great but "not a good test" is just silly.

Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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Post by snapcaster »

anon1094 wrote: post #11
snapcaster wrote: post #5

Yeah this is old news. When i was in China last year google translate seemed to literally never work (looks of confusion trying to do basic interactions in stores). GPT-4 worked perfectly every time, I think google translate might be another soft abandoned project from google

If you try to translate anything more than a single sentence with Google Translate you get looks of confusion. It's too literal. GPT-4 is much more natural.

Yeah i used GPT-4 instead and it worked perfectly every single time
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