• bouh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They are making sense of a language without a rosetta stone. The English llm talk is learned from English.

    Now the corpus is a big work to do. But still.

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      1 year ago

      No, they learn English (or any other language) from humans. Translation requires a Rosetta Stone and LLMs are still much worse at such tasks than dedicated translation programs.

      Edit: I guess if you are suggesting that the LLM could become an LLM of the dead language and communicate only in said dead language, that is indeed possible. Since users would need to speak that dead language to communicate with it though I don’t understand the utility of such a thing (and is certainly not what the author meant anyway).