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minus-square🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down11·7 days agoUsing an LLM is actually a great use case. But you’ll have to fact check it periodically.
minus-squareaffiliate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 days agohow are you supposed to fact check it if you don’t know the language?
minus-square🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 days agoWell, you can look up conjugation tables or a dictionary. But for romance languages, they’re pretty damn good.
minus-square🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 days agoNLP is one of the few tasks they’re actually good for?
minus-squareastutemural@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoMmhmm, because what I really want is a program that teaches me to say “orange bacon sandwhich” when I ask it to tell me “where is the bathroom?”
minus-square🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoHopefully if you’re at the point of knowing basic verbs and conjugations you’d recognize a string of nouns?
Using an LLM is actually a great use case. But you’ll have to fact check it periodically.
how are you supposed to fact check it if you don’t know the language?
Well, you can look up conjugation tables or a dictionary. But for romance languages, they’re pretty damn good.
Cope harder
NLP is one of the few tasks they’re actually good for?
Mmhmm, because what I really want is a program that teaches me to say “orange bacon sandwhich” when I ask it to tell me “where is the bathroom?”
Hopefully if you’re at the point of knowing basic verbs and conjugations you’d recognize a string of nouns?