> it's almost certainly also powered by an autoregressive transformer model, just like ChatGPT
replyThe objective of that model, however, is quite different to that of an LLM.
I have seen Google Translate hallucinate exactly zero times over thousands of queries over the years. Meanwhile, LLMs emit garbage roughly 1/3 of the time, in my experience. Can you provide an example of Translate hallucinating something?
replyAgreed, and I use G translate daily to handle living in a country where 95% of the population doesn’t speak any language I do.
replyIt occasionally messes up, but not by hallucinating, usually grammar salad because what I put into it was somewhat ambiguous. It’s also terrible with genders in Romance languages, but then that is a nightmare for humans too.
Palmada palmada bot.
Every single time it mistranslates something it is hallucinations.
replyGoogle Translate hasn't moved to LLM-style translation yet, unfortunately
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