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Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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ChatGPT 3 was already far beyond google translate in my attempts, mostly using it between English, Danish and Swedish.

Even being able to ask it to translate song lyrics while retaining rhyming structure was sometimes not too bad :)

Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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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

Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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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

Google Translate simply doesn't use a GPU for translation. It's as easy as that. There is a huge jump in cost associated with using the GPU.

Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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I still find it amazing how LLM translation capabilities are an almost accidental feature. Yet they still managed to leapfrog decades of research and billions of investment dollars in traditional machine translation.

Didn't "Attention Is All you Need" bill transformers primarily as a translation model?

Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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I still find it amazing how LLM translation capabilities are an almost accidental feature. Yet they still managed to leapfrog decades of research and billions of investment dollars in traditional machine translation.

Didn't "Attention Is All you Need" bill transformers primarily as a translation model?

Yes, it was primarly for translation. I don’t know how OP come to the conclusion that it was accidental

Re: Claude 3 beats Google Translate

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I still find it amazing how LLM translation capabilities are an almost accidental feature. Yet they still managed to leapfrog decades of research and billions of investment dollars in traditional machine translation.

Didn't "Attention Is All you Need" bill transformers primarily as a translation model?

Yes, but the translation model in the “Attention is All You Need” was trained on parallel sentences (input: English sentence, output: French). LLMs such as Claude are not trained on any labeled data. Yet, they still surpass the special-case models.
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