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.

embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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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Miraste 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To my knowledge, all major LLMs are multilingual. This article could really have used an evaluation of existing models' European Portuguese capabilities.

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numpad0 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yeah, they seem all confined to being an American-consultant-Chinese-authoritarian split personality with broad second language capabilities. I suppose they become too incoherent otherwise.

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cess11 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

E.g. gemma3:4b can fake simple conversations in several european languages, including portuguese, swedish and finnish.

It's just a database. If you push text in one language into it, it'll likely crap out stuff in that same language, unless the system prompt that also goes in with your query causes it not to.

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CrimsonRain 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	lmf4lol an hour ago \| parent [-]
		whats your suggestion? we just eradicate all of our culture and languages and go full on english ? whats wrong with exploring ways to keep national languages alive in the LLM area

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mistrial9 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> makes you missed out on most of the world knowledge

and, who knows what will happen to grammar ?

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clear-octopus 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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KK7NIL 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	lmf4lol an hour ago \| parent [-]
		everyone on this project probably learned a lot doing it, dont you think!