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There's an undercurrent in a lot of writings like this that don't seem to grasp that LLMs enable access to a ton of knowledge that was otherwise out of reach for a ton of people. I'll give an example. I just traveled to Serbia, and I went on a run through a park in New Belgrade, where I saw a monument written in Cyrillic. I snapped a pic of it and uploaded it to Claude; it translated and gave me some context. I thoug…
> " I snapped a pic of it and uploaded it to Claude; it translated and gave me some context. " Google Translate provided OCR + translation from smartphones before LLMs became a thing so that doesn't manage to bolster your argument.
He literally said it 'gave him some context'. Google Translate could do that too?
And Google Translate is a worse translator than frontier LLMs by a large margin.