> The Internet allows you to get every classical work of philosophy or theology online immediately both in the original language or in translation.
replyLLMs also do quite well at "decoding" the obscure language of these classic works and rephrasing it in more contemporary terms. Even a small local LLM will typically do a good enough job of this, though more world knowledge (with a bigger model) is always preferable.
No, they don't.
replyI'm close-reading Aristotle in a Meetup group where we compare many translations and indulge the controversies in translating the Greek.
When I've tried to get LLMs to bear on a topic, they can't even relate to the concept I'm looking at, instead generating a summary of the easiest parts. LLM is basically a beginner student.
Um... you'd think so... but the Perseus catalog is notoriously incomplete. They don't have all the key works of Aristotle in Greek.
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