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That's a good breakdown (I guess. I am not an AI expert).

It does beg the question: How well does the LLM work on non-English languages?

He did mention translators, but I think he was talking about a more primitive incarnation.

I suspect that the Chinese have a version that works well with Chinese input, and maybe the Koreans and Japanese, but I'll bet one of the limitations is how much material is available to learn on, and the contractors needed to verify the training.

It sounds like training is a really expensive task, and may mean that for-profit corporations could get a lock on it.

I'm wondering if we'll be seeing "AI patent trolls," where you are sued, because your LLM has similar responses to someone else's. I see a whole industry springing up, around that (probably with AI lawyers).

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I'm not an English native speaker and my first language has only about 2 million speakers with very limited training corpuses. GPT-3.5 is already shockingly good at it, although the outputs do seem a bit less factually accurate and less practically useful than in English. It's really odd that it gets the language right in all aspects except the content.

The great thing about niche languages is that it's not cost effective to scammers to learn it for their purposes. That all changes now I suppose.

> It does beg the question: How well does the LLM work on non-English languages?

Well I haven't chatted to it much in Chinese, but I've asked extensively about Chinese, and that's probably one area where I get the most benefit. It can accurately translate, segment, romanize, and break down phrases; it usually does a pretty good job explaining why a given word was used, and is good at giving you example sentences using a given word or grammar pattern. I'd be surprised if it were significantly worse in Chinese than in English.

It speaks Dutch just as well as English. I've been talking to it for weeks about the house I am renovating. I double check what it tell me, but it's very useful to get a first general answer.

I am curious what things you are talking about in the context of home renovation.

I have not used ChatGPT much but I see more and more uses that are not obvious ones (and usually only the obvious ones are addressed in articles or posts)

The kind of questions I would ask someone with experience in construction.

"If I want to remove plaster from walls, which tools should I use? What should I do with the debris afterwards?"

"Which kinds of cavity wall insulation exist? Will this cause moisture problems in my house? What can I do to detect or prevent these kinds of problems?"

"Is it useful to insulate interior walls in an old house? Or should I just focus on the exterior? Will interior wall insulation raise the EPC (energy performance) of my house?"

It works well in Norwegian so far

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