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ChatGPT as a machine translation engine?
Thread poster: Shouguang Cao
Shouguang Cao
Shouguang Cao  Identity Verified
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Dec 7, 2022

I added ChatGPT as a translation engine. For my language pair, it's pretty amazing.



I wonder how it performs compared with DeepL or Google.
 
Ulrich Leininger
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Germany
Local time: 11:47
English to German
How did you do that? Dec 13, 2022

How are you interfacing with ChatGPT? How did you integrate it into your translation environment?

In my test of a longer bit of text, it made some serious mistakes that wouldn't occur in Google or DeepL. But, ChatGPT is not even a specialized translation tool and what it does is processing the whole text holistically, not just sentence by sentence. ChatGPT is clearly more intelligent by orders of magnitude - I can easily imagine it taking over the MT market if OpenAI puts some effor... See more
How are you interfacing with ChatGPT? How did you integrate it into your translation environment?

In my test of a longer bit of text, it made some serious mistakes that wouldn't occur in Google or DeepL. But, ChatGPT is not even a specialized translation tool and what it does is processing the whole text holistically, not just sentence by sentence. ChatGPT is clearly more intelligent by orders of magnitude - I can easily imagine it taking over the MT market if OpenAI puts some effort into it. ▲ Collapse


Mike Tung
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
API Dec 13, 2022

Ulrich Leininger wrote:

How are you interfacing with ChatGPT? How did you integrate it into your translation environment?



See: https://medium.com/geekculture/2022-how-to-use-chatgpt-api-with-curl-88830dec8a65
 
Ulrich Leininger
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Germany
Local time: 11:47
English to German
Thanks Dec 14, 2022

I asked ChatGPT if it has an API, it said no.
 
Shouguang Cao
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China
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It does Dec 14, 2022

Ulrich Leininger wrote:

I asked ChatGPT if it has an API, it said no.


ChatGPT doesn't know it has an API.

Make an API request with

Translate into German: Hello world

And then extract the German translation from its reply.
 


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