[ExI] chatgpt plus google translate

[BillK]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 at 16:29, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Hey cool, idea: we can use Google to translate from any common language into English, use ChatGPT, then Google translate its response back.  Have a discussion with it.  Then when finished, have a different translator or a human translate the discussion into English for the benighted Americans to examine in what is our only language.
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> Anyone up to that?  Giovanni has the  Italian, si?  Who else do we have?  Gadersd, you are a globe trotter, ja?  German?  I know we have Spanish speakers here.
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> In order to make that work, it might require a third person to do the cut and paste, so the experimenter speaker would only see the non-English.  I might be able to recruit a Mandarin speaker.  This experiment wouldn’t require any in-person contact.  Giovanni, shall we try it?  I can do the ChatGPT end of the discussion, post you Google translations in Italiano, you would respond to me in Italiano only.  Then we post everything after the discussion is finished.
> Giovanni, funzionerebbe, giovanotto?
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> spike
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ChatGPT does translations sort of OK.
But GPT-4 is better.

<https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08745>
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[Submitted on 20 Jan 2023 (v1), last revised 19 Mar 2023 (this version, v3)]
Is ChatGPT A Good Translator? Yes With GPT-4 As The Engine
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BillK