[ExI] Looking for a science fiction author.

[Giovanni Santostasi]

The translation into Italian would be good from a technical perspective but
most of the poetic meaning in the writing would be lost in translation.
I tried translating with GPT-4 several Italian songs and I had to revisit
the translation to convey better the meaning. Dialogue or poetry is more
difficult to translate for GPT-4.
Giovanni

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 5:11 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> GPT 4 is capable of translating the book into just about any language. I
> wonder how the quality would compare to that of a professional author? It
> would be an interesting experiment. Assuming the book is 100,000 words it
> would cost about $32 to translate it with GPT 4.
>
> > On Oct 11, 2023, at 7:43 AM, efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello dear list members,
> >
> > As some of you might have noticed (the ones who managed to get through
> the massive multiple worlds thread) I referenced a favourite
> > swedish science fiction book of mine that never was published in english.
> >
> > To my great delight, I now managed to initiate a dialogue with the
> rights holder of this book (relative of the original author who
> > sadly is no longer with us) about translating it into english.
> >
> > I have a vague memory that one (or more) regular readers (and writers)
> on this list are science fiction authors.
> >
> > If so, I wonder if it would be possible to write you an email in private
> with some questions and for some advice when it comes to the
> > project of getting this book published in english?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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