Tell HN: ChatGPT is Multilingual

The German translation is hilariously as bad as the Google translation. And the exact duplication, word by word, makes it looks very suspiciously ;)

DeepL translation (a German-based AI company) is ways more natural: "Was in den Medien wenig über ChatGPT gesagt wird, ist, dass es mehrsprachig ist."

"Something little spoken on the media about ChatGPT is that it is multilingual."

You should've at least started with somewhat intelligible English because now you're going to end up corrupting all the translations.

improved: "One little known fact about chat GPT that is rarely mentioned in the media is that it is multilingual"

> Arabic: شيء قليلا مثل على الإعلام عن ChatGPT هو أنه متعدد اللغات.

That is a really bad translation from ChatGPT to arabic.

It's likely due to the corpus though. It's multilingual, but the dataset they trained on is representative of "the Internet" so the latin languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, etc...) are overly represented.

It's very good in Malay, though it has an Indonesian dialect.

It's bad at this particular sentence though: "Sesuatu yang sedikit dibicarakan di media tentang ChatGPT adalah ia multibahasa." (Something rarely spoken in media about ChatGPT is that is is multilingual)

Mine would be: "Media jarang membicarakan kebolehan ChatGPT berbicara dalam pelbagai bahasa" (Media rarely speaks of the ability of ChatGPT to speak in many types of languages)

It might just be that ChatGPT feels compelled to follow the exact same sentence structure and sometimes words just don't fit into those fields. If I translate a correct sentence into English as above, it sounds awkward as well.

ChatGPT does Malay poetry better than me, but it seems to be heavily biased towards love songs.

It does seem to be capable of explaining the Malay pun "Arnold Susahnakeja"(Arnold Hard-to-spell), with some training. Ironically, the training was to explain to it that not everyone can spell Schwarzenegger. Misspelling seems to be a more alien concept to it.

For everyone saying the translations suck, the English sucks in the example, so it's no surprise.

I was just going to say this, if they had prompted chat GPT with something like "please rewrite this in grammatically correct English", it likely would've worked for the English example.

You're both from USA, I assume?

I speak guarani, an indigenous language spoken in Paraguay, and it's funny how it makes words out that sound like guarani but aren't really.

When I confront it on the mistake it just says it is sorry but keeps repeating them.

I've been talking to it in spanish to practice. Literally, just say something in spanish and it will respond in spanish. Regarding quality, I'm pretty sure it's about the same as english; technically correct just aggressively formal.

I asked it to play a game where it gave me a sentence in english, I translated it to spanish, and it graded my translation. I had to explain it about 5 times because it kept giving the spanish translation itself first. But eventually it got it. Nice tool for language learning, imho.

The Spanish version is not bad. (It's not perfect, but something like the autotranslation of Google.)

Can you test with a more complicated sentence like

The brown bull is in the tall barn.

It's harder because in the Spanish translation it must change the order of adjective and nouns, and also modify the adjectives according to the gender of the nouns.

The German translation looks bad, but I don't remember enough German to be sure.

Same goes for French, seems like it's mostly doing word-per-word translation.

> Quelque chose de peu parlé dans les médias à propos de ChatGPT est qu'il est multilingue.

Quelque chose => Something

de peu => little

parlé => spoken

dans les médias => in the news

à propos => about

est qu'il est => is that it is

It's not necessarily "bad" but it reads like something someone who speaks English as a first language and learned some French would write.

Yes it is. Result are way off in Greek though. Much higher % of getting a totally wrong answer compared to English.

s/Qualcosa di poco parlato sui media su ChatGPT è che è multilingue./Una cosa di cui si parla poco sui media riguardo ChatGPT è che sia multilingua./