Submitted by ReadditOnReddit t3_1274tur in singularity
Just a thought that occurred in my mind. With some of the more popular LLMs being trained in English , will we see a global amalgamation of the use of English as a primary language?
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kif88 t1_jeczpp5 wrote
Came here to say this. As time goes on and they work on the hallucinating problem it could become an excellent tool to learn new languages as well. Once we personal assistants become common and integrated into our it could be told to slowly work in new words from the language your trying to learn. One of the biggest problems people face in learning is not having anywhere to practice.
evolseven t1_jedlki7 wrote
It's kind of interesting how life mimics sci-fi at times.. the universal translator was described as almost tokenizing text like CLIP does and then detokenizing it back to the user's language.. I know its not as easy as that as different languages have contextual clues that appear at different parts of the sentence structure.. so real time translation may not be fully possible without some type of neural interface but near real time (a sentence at a time) is likely very achievable with near perfect accuracy...
bemmu t1_jee1ofv wrote
My native language is Finnish, and it’s extremely good at it. Occasionally it will use some wording that seems off, but overall it’s excellent. It feels so strange to be able to converse about any topic in my own language that I’ve stuck with English just out of habit.
Utoko t1_jee5xoh wrote
Ye because it translates the context perfectly, understands technical terms, Abbreviations and so on.
It is a bit slow, so I usually use Deepl but the quality is excellent at least for English to German.
KainDulac t1_jecl0ot wrote
Seeing how good just GPT 3.5 is in Spanish, I doubt it.
It's going to kill translator pretty soon tho.
FlyingCockAndBalls t1_jecx3r2 wrote
fuck I hope. so much untranslated manga I wanna read
7734128 t1_jegkmio wrote
You're probably correct, but translators might also be rendered unemployed before that happens.
Cryptizard t1_jeclne1 wrote
What are you talking about? GPT-4 speaks like 100 languages.
BigMemeKing t1_jecw0np wrote
It's going to eliminate the need to learn any other language should all work properly. Your native language will be automatically translated into whatever language needed.
You would have implants that would translate spoken word in one language into your most dominant language or the language of your preference for that matter. Why would anyone ever need to learn English when machines do the talking for everyone one day?
Reddituser45005 t1_jecri30 wrote
English, Mandarin and Spanish are the dominant global languages. That is likely to continue. China is a world leader in AI and has multiple firms with mandarin based LLMs.
SWATSgradyBABY t1_jecpb0s wrote
Funny question.
qepdibpbfessttrud t1_jecv91h wrote
LLMs will accelerate BCI research and we'll hopefully be telepathically talking in more universal new thought symbol language optimized for data compression, speed and precision, and also for verbose emotion translation, rather than in 100+ languages optimized for talking with sound waves in short distance
Before that current trend of English supremacy will continue slowly - through new useful data, especially scientific, and almost all useful code being produced in English
SpikyCactusJuice t1_jecse1p wrote
It’s a good question. Personally, I’ve been surprised to find myself using it to get back into learning Spanish and Japanese. So far it’s literally like having a conversation partner who is also a grammar expert. For Japanese, the best part so far is that I can ask it to only reply in romaji (English spelling) and it does. Game changer for actually picking up the spoken language.
DustinBrett t1_jecynj4 wrote
No need with a universal translator coming soon
XPao t1_jed2bgz wrote
I think it will actually have the opposite effect.
Representative_Pop_8 t1_jed3i9n wrote
current llm are as good in most major languages as in English, so no.
GlobusGlobus t1_jedvqxh wrote
GPT-4 is amazing at translation. Like, very very good.
Open AI claims that they mostly trained it on English, but it works very well in many other languages. Personally I use it Swedish and Turkish. There is a big step up in handling other languages in GPT4 compared to GPT3. GPT3 have problems with Swedish sayings and things like that, GPT4 handles it like a king.
Utoko t1_jee5qgq wrote
Completely wrong. ChatGpt is really excellent in many languages. I use it often in German.
and here the people from ukraine which I showed it also using it quite a bit.
It is another super useful tool which lets you use your own language.
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I would say all these tools do the opposite. The family in our house can still very little German after one year. They are now all using speech translate on their phones, which also gets better and better with AI. whisper model and co.
If you are never forced to learn the other language most people won't do it.
I think in the long run it is pretty bad for integration in the country in the long run. Since you can communicate slowly via phone but that is no fun when it is not necessary. So you just have less contact.
Roubbes t1_jeeiezx wrote
Espero que no.
ArcticWinterZzZ t1_jecmcf3 wrote
Quite the opposite; GPT-4 is excellent at a wide variety of languages, and as a context-aware translation tool (that can even take in images!) it has the potential to be far better at translating webpages and conversations than even the best currently existing translation software.