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📣 puttycat

How come ChatGPT can translate?


I can understand how factual knowledge can be acquired through language modeling. But what is in the training data that would make it be able to translate between languages?


  👤 ofalkaed Accepted Answer ✓
99% translation dictionaries and grammars from what I have seen. AI does not really translate, it does not understand the context but can sort of fake understanding the languages in a very technical sense which works well enough when you don't know the language at all but loses all the nuance.

Edit: 99% is a bit hyperbolic, AI has a good amount of human translations to work off of as well which helps it with idiomatic/figurative language but it is still not translating, just playing the odds.


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