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| | | | Kay Denney 
France
Local time: 16:38
French to English
I tried using ChatGPT to translate a medieval poem. YouTube was far more helpful to learn about iambic pentameter. I ended up using a couple of expressions cribbed from ChatGPT but it was really nothing special. I had to ask it a good dozen times, because it kept introducing ideas that weren't in the original. Its first effort was about 24 lines long whereas I only had six lines to translate.
And a week later, a friend told me about a translator specialising in medieval poetry, so ... See more I tried using ChatGPT to translate a medieval poem. YouTube was far more helpful to learn about iambic pentameter. I ended up using a couple of expressions cribbed from ChatGPT but it was really nothing special. I had to ask it a good dozen times, because it kept introducing ideas that weren't in the original. Its first effort was about 24 lines long whereas I only had six lines to translate.
And a week later, a friend told me about a translator specialising in medieval poetry, so if it ever happens again (doubtful!) I shall direct the client to her instead. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Useful? No, thank you! | May 10, 2023 |
I tried if just for fun and out of curiosity, but I will not use it for anything work-related, not even for research as it gives wrong answers very convincingly. As I said before (another similar poll) one of the reasons I’m still translating at my age is to keep my brain working and learning new things by myself…
| | | | Enrico Zoffoli
Italy
Local time: 16:38
Member (2013)
German to Italian
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In several occasion it helped me locate information and run plausibility checks. Quite useful in that respect.
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Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 16:38
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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On its own it can be useful to search for the meaning of acronyms, but that's about it.
But the new version of search engine Bing uses a ChatGPT-based chat function and if I understood it correctly the search engine eliminates the 'hallucinating' part of ChatGPT. That I find very promising because it will speed up internet search considerably. It basically does the same as conventional internet search but results come faster and you can more easily refine your search.
| | | | whwng
Local time: 15:38
Member (2022)
English to Chinese
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| Be Vigilant about accuracy | May 10, 2023 |
I have tried using ChatGPT to obtain some info, which is also available on the government website, but it turned out that the info it provided was abosolutely inaccurate. I used a few sources to verify the info and was sure that the Chat GPT did not provide the correct info and when I told ChatGPT that it was wrong, it asked me for the correct info. If I deliberately provided wrong info to Chat GPT, would it take it as correct and will it verify before provision to a user? Be careful!
| | | | | Is this a new religion or something? | May 10, 2023 |
This AI solution is a few months old, but some people already seem inclined to worship it. It's not designed to translate, only to write convincing bulls**t in different languages, so I honestly can't understand why translators are going nuts about it. All of a sudden, we have a new source of translation empowerment (it's just that you have to pay to learn how to be empowered). My understanding is that an AI-driven translation industry is all about creating and selling newspeak. Different langua... See more This AI solution is a few months old, but some people already seem inclined to worship it. It's not designed to translate, only to write convincing bulls**t in different languages, so I honestly can't understand why translators are going nuts about it. All of a sudden, we have a new source of translation empowerment (it's just that you have to pay to learn how to be empowered). My understanding is that an AI-driven translation industry is all about creating and selling newspeak. Different languages have different traditions for expressing ideas, but why don't we all agree to break them with the help of AI? Why do Russians have to distinguish between the rotor of an engine and the main rotor of a rotorcraft? ChatGPT believes it's not an important difference, unlike Google, DeepL, and other MT engines that were designed specifically for translation. Why can't we accept "films (or even captivity/captures according to some MT tools), cracks, flaws, sunsets, deep risks, and roughness (or even rough mountain ash according to Amazon)" instead of "slivers, cracks, laps, deep tool marks, and severe pitting" as a list of metal defects? We are only translators, so why do they expect us to know the subject-matter of whatever we're working on? After all, the rolling defect that I translated as "sliver" was translated as "film" by 100% of the people who worked for my company before me (because its Russian name is a suffix-less cousin of the word for "film"; if it's a rolling defect, it can also be translated as "rolled scab" but if it's a casting defect, it should be translated as "oxide spot"; whoever gets to translate lists of metal defects from Russian into English – have fun). Why can't the switchyard facility of a power plant be called "power output scheme"? Yes, that's how Russian engineers often call it, three words that seamlessly translate into "power output scheme" if the translator is a follower of the ChatGPT religion. I know, some people here will say that the only reason why MT keeps failing me in every respect imaginable is that I don't know how to use it. And they'll be happy to teach me how to use it (but of course the instruction will not be free). Thanks but no thank you, I prefer staying in my comfort zone of being a clueless Luddite (and one who often translates into his non-native language – I know, I know, haters welcome)
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How else could I afford to lounge around on my own tropical island with rock stars and models?
The human brain is SOOOO last century.
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| I want to try it out for non-billable work ... | May 10, 2023 |
... such as crafting targeted lists of small- and medium-size translation agencies that work with my language combinations and specialities, but I haven't come around to this yet.
| | | | Kate Chaffer
Italy
Local time: 16:38
Member (2009)
Italian to English
| Long live the Queen! | May 10, 2023 |
I have to give a presentation about the UK at my son's preschool. I asked ChatGPT what I could talk about to 3 and 4 year olds.
Its answer ended:
"Share some fun facts about the UK, such as that the queen lives in a palace called Buckingham Palace, or that the Loch Ness Monster is said to live in a lake in Scotland."
I replied that the Queen died last year.
"I'm sorry, but I must correct you on that. As an AI language model, I have access to u... See more I have to give a presentation about the UK at my son's preschool. I asked ChatGPT what I could talk about to 3 and 4 year olds.
Its answer ended:
"Share some fun facts about the UK, such as that the queen lives in a palace called Buckingham Palace, or that the Loch Ness Monster is said to live in a lake in Scotland."
I replied that the Queen died last year.
"I'm sorry, but I must correct you on that. As an AI language model, I have access to up-to-date information, and as of today, Queen Elizabeth II is still alive and currently reigning as the Queen of the United Kingdom. She has been on the throne since 1952, making her the longest-reigning monarch in British history. It's important to be careful with information and make sure to verify it before sharing it with others."
I then pointed out that King Charles III was crowned last Saturday.
"I apologize for any confusion I may have caused in my previous responses. However, I must clarify that King Charles III has not been crowned last Saturday or at any other time. Prince Charles, the current heir to the British throne, has not yet ascended to the throne and remains the Prince of Wales. It is important to ensure that information is accurate and verified from reliable sources before sharing it with others."
I think ChatGPT should take its own advice sometimes! ▲ Collapse
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Kate Chaffer wrote:
I have to give a presentation about the UK at my son's preschool. I asked ChatGPT what I could talk about to 3 and 4 year olds.
Its answer ended:
"Share some fun facts about the UK, such as that the queen lives in a palace called Buckingham Palace, or that the Loch Ness Monster is said to live in a lake in Scotland."
I replied that the Queen died last year.
"I'm sorry, but I must correct you on that. As an AI language model, I have access to up-to-date information, and as of today, Queen Elizabeth II is still alive and currently reigning as the Queen of the United Kingdom. She has been on the throne since 1952, making her the longest-reigning monarch in British history. It's important to be careful with information and make sure to verify it before sharing it with others."
I then pointed out that King Charles III was crowned last Saturday.
"I apologize for any confusion I may have caused in my previous responses. However, I must clarify that King Charles III has not been crowned last Saturday or at any other time. Prince Charles, the current heir to the British throne, has not yet ascended to the throne and remains the Prince of Wales. It is important to ensure that information is accurate and verified from reliable sources before sharing it with others."
I think ChatGPT should take its own advice sometimes!
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| | | | Arianne Farah
Canada
Local time: 10:38
Member (2008)
English to French
| I had such high hopes... | May 10, 2023 |
for AI driven QA, but instead I got this :
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Kate Chaffer wrote:
I have to give a presentation about the UK at my son's preschool. I asked ChatGPT what I could talk about to 3 and 4 year olds.
Its answer ended:
"Share some fun facts about the UK, such as that the queen lives in a palace called Buckingham Palace, or that the Loch Ness Monster is said to live in a lake in Scotland."
I replied that the Queen died last year.
"I'm sorry, but I must correct you on that. As an AI language model, I have access to up-to-date information, and as of today, Queen Elizabeth II is still alive and currently reigning as the Queen of the United Kingdom.
...what about Lady Di and Elvis? Any chances that they are still alive?
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Kate Chaffer wrote:
I think ChatGPT should take its own advice sometimes!
I think people who use a tool should first make themselves aware of its limitations.
It has been widely publicised that ChatGPT was trained on data that stopped at 2021. Thus that particular AI is not aware of anything that happened since then.
That includes, of course, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III.
| | | | | Augmented search | May 11, 2023 |
As I've reported before in another thread, I find it useful for tracking down information where my query is too vague or general for a normal web search.
For example:
What is the meaning of "Dice" in the following sentence: AI-based performance benchmarks of interest included: accuracy, sensitivity, specificity/recall, AUC (area under curve), precision, Dice, intersection over union (IoU) and F-1 score.
Imagine putting "dice" into a normal search engine! Ch... See more As I've reported before in another thread, I find it useful for tracking down information where my query is too vague or general for a normal web search.
For example:
What is the meaning of "Dice" in the following sentence: AI-based performance benchmarks of interest included: accuracy, sensitivity, specificity/recall, AUC (area under curve), precision, Dice, intersection over union (IoU) and F-1 score.
Imagine putting "dice" into a normal search engine! ChatGPT found the answer I wanted immediately.
"In this context, "Dice" is a performance metric used in image segmentation and object detection tasks. It measures the similarity between the predicted segmentation and the ground truth segmentation, and is defined as the size of the intersection divided by the size of the union of the two sets of pixels. A Dice score of 1 indicates a perfect overlap, while a score of 0 indicates no overlap."
This does not exactly coming under the heading of "useful", but as apart from translation I also do a lot of editing of medical research papers, I want to be able to identify those that have been written either by, or with the assistance of large language model AIs like ChatGPT. There are certain clues, but I don't know for how much longer this will be possible. In some cases now, the robot's version of a text is clearly better than the human version.
However, a piece of software is only as good as its data, and there's so much disinformation on the web it's not surprising that the AIs get it wrong sometimes.
Though probably not as often as humans get it wrong. When I asked ChatGPT to write an op-ed piece on why abandoning the Good Friday agreement would not be bad for Northern Ireland, it refused point blank. It is also quite clear about who won the 2020 US presidential election. ▲ Collapse
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