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hartatortoday at 3:36 PM5 repliesview on HN

What a waste of time and money.

Trying to force a LLM into a specific language makes you missed out on most of the world knowledge.


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embedding-shapetoday at 3:42 PM

What LLM isn't forced into a specific language? That'd be a weird language model no one could understand, you need to chose at least one language, ideally the same as the creators speak.

Besides, there is knowledge that is locked behind languages, there are things known in Portuguese that aren't known in other languages, and the same for other languages too. More accessibility to those ideas wouldn't hurt.

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CrimsonRaintoday at 6:43 PM

Europe always has a thing for their languages. They think many languages make them stronger while spending billions in system loss due to communication barriers. It is obvious they will try to do the same with LLMs and call it the next best thing since bread and butter.

I went to JCON EUROPE this year. The amount of "Europe this" "Europe that" "sovereign this, sovereign that" is mind boggling and just a waste of time and money. The regular people know this and thus left the conferences mid way. But somehow the people "in charge" really need to push this. Same thing here.

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mistrial9today at 3:38 PM

> makes you missed out on most of the world knowledge

and, who knows what will happen to grammar ?

clear-octopustoday at 3:45 PM

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KK7NILtoday at 4:31 PM

This is how Europe thinks they can catch up on tech, by having the government fund vanity projects which will be made obsolete by more general techniques in 6 months.

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