dwilding

Thanks! Earlier in the project I tried to find a way to generate English but with Chinese grammar - something like “you need to grab your shoelaces and tie them well” - as a way to help memorize grammatical structures. But I didn’t get very far with that. For one reason, I couldn’t coax an LLM to output such unnatural English (!)

So in the end I decided that I can ask GPT-4 to explain alternative structures based on the translation I get

Ideally, I would like to find a reliable way to directly transform my first attempt at an expression into a native-level expression, without necessary routing via English. It didn’t seem doable with the LLMs I tried so far, but there are others I can try, and maybe some training would help too - as you say

My pleasure, glad you like it!

Happy to share, thanks!

I also use GPT-4 for explaining the meaning of sentences in more detail (as in JimDabell’s comment). Often my questions are like “how would a native speaker say this colloquially” - I’ve found it really valuable to be able to have a back-and-forth on why something works the way it does

That’s awesome! I hope you have fun too :)

Just for fun, I’m trying to force it to misinterpret what I’m saying by changing “dei tie” to “di tie” (as in subway). It really doesn’t want to interpret it differently! I think “shoelaces” must be such a strong signal of context for the LLM

After working on this project, I’ve started using MS translate as my go-to app if I want to translate an existing sentence. Previously I tended to use Google Translate by default. But I’ve genuinely been surprised by the differences between the apps

I have seen some variation in the interpretation - although it does seem to be pretty consistent. When I enter “服了u” into unscrambler I get the interpretation “I give up” every time I try it

I’ll check out those models - thank you!

According to my wife (a Chinese native speaker), GPT-3.5 is bad at outputting Chinese but GPT-4 does a good job

Thanks for the kind words!

I’ve found it very helpful for staying in the zone and getting better at “thinking” in Chinese

If you start learning Chinese again in the future, I hope you find it useful too!

As lavrton said in a sibling comment - simpler integration.

I can't speak to Dropbox integration, but every time I've looked at integrating with Google Drive I have felt my development effort growing, not shrinking.

Puter also seems to place a high value on privacy, which I like.