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Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024)

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ozgune ◴[15 Apr 25 12:12 UTC] No.43691597[source]▶
I had a related, but orthogonal question about multilingual LLMs.

When I ask smaller models a question in English, the model does well. When I ask the same model a question in Turkish, the answer is mediocre. When I ask the model to translate my question into English, get the answer, and translate the answer back to Turkish, the model again does well.

For example, I tried the above with Llama 3.3 70B, and asked it to plan me a 3-day trip to Istanbul. When I asked Llama to do the translations between English <> Turkish, the answer was notably better.

Anyone else observed a similar behavior?

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laurent_du ◴[15 Apr 25 13:43 UTC] No.43692596[source]▶
ChatGPT is very informal and talks like a millennial when I ask questions in French. I hate it.
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1. bee_rider ◴[15 Apr 25 14:36 UTC] No.43693378[source]▶
Is there a phenomenon where middle-aged people are very informal or slang-y in France? Usually the kids are the ones creating new lingo in English.