Aeons ago Cracked did a skit called “Cooking with Babelfish.” First of all remember when it was called Babelfish? Remember Alta Vista?
The one thing you could count on with one of those…feels wrong to call it ‘old’…translation algorithm programs was it would get the quantities right. It might tell you to put in 5 kilograms of earth apples, because the French don’t have a word for “potato” and Babelfish didn’t know that, but the recipe did indeed call for 5 kilograms of them.
… And now you have me thinking about whether siccing AI on automatic recipe translation is a good or bad idea …
Since LLMs suck at maths, it would probably result in me putting 2kg of sugar into a recipe calling for 3 cups.
Aeons ago Cracked did a skit called “Cooking with Babelfish.” First of all remember when it was called Babelfish? Remember Alta Vista?
The one thing you could count on with one of those…feels wrong to call it ‘old’…translation algorithm programs was it would get the quantities right. It might tell you to put in 5 kilograms of earth apples, because the French don’t have a word for “potato” and Babelfish didn’t know that, but the recipe did indeed call for 5 kilograms of them.
LLMs are getting better at math btw.
There are also techniques considered to have the LLM call functions like a calculator to address arithmetic.