Really impressed with AI language translation
Normally I’m on a mission to combat the hype and misinformation about LLMs and exaggerated or misleading statements about its abilities, but I was reading the documents that were released…
By Sophie Bennett
Normally I’m on a mission to combat the hype and misinformation about LLMs and exaggerated or misleading statements about its abilities, but I was reading the documents that were released in the latest tranche of PURSUE files on the department of war government site, and in one folder there are a bunch of handwritten letters from the 40s and 50s written in cursive. I’m a millennial so I can read them, but I came across one I just couldn’t make out. So I uploaded it to Claude and asked it to translate the cursive. It translated it to Dutch, then to English! I had no idea the letter wasn’t in English because of the cursive. I know the translation is correct because the next letter in the files was a typed reply to that one in English and they corresponded perfectly. I placed the standard writing translation from Dutch cursive into DeepL which I considered one of the best translation apps o…
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