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by Izkata 1149 days ago
> I certainly can't see a way for LLMs to generate "smarter" text than what's in their training data.

By combining contexts from different fields. People are already using it with non-English languages and it responds in that language with something they couldn't previously find in that language.

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Automatic translation is impressive, to be sure.

But looking up information and translating it into other languages is well within the realm of human skill. And the information it's translating came from people to begin with.