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Would Latin GPT come up with that 2 word phrase?

GPT4 response:

  You can translate the phrase "She said goodbye too many times before" into Latin as "Dixit vale saepe nimis antea".

I asked GPT4 whether it could make the translation shorter to which it responded that Latin was inherently a verbose language, so no.

For what it's worth, I asked the same two questions to GPT 3.5 and got:

Yes, in Latin, you can say "multum vale" to mean "goodbye many times" or "vale nimis" to mean "goodbye too much"

Not surprised. These models are inherently stochastic and will therefore happily say A and ¬A when prompted multiple times. A fundamental difference to how humans operate. (You could say that humans are stochastic, too, but they're stochastic in different ways.)

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