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How Good Are GPT Models at Machine Translation? A Comprehensive Evaluation

Can GPT Translate Languages Well? What a Big Test Shows

We put GPT models to work on lots of languages and the results are a mix of wins and limits.
For common tongues the systems give very good outputs, sounding smooth and easy to read, but the models often performs worse when data is scarce.
The study checked many language pairs, even those that don't use English as a go-between, and it found clear differences.
Prompt tips and using whole documents helps, yet sometimes the models misses context or changes tone.
A smarter path is to use a hybrid setup, where GPT is mixed with other tools to fix gaps and make better choices.
Human raters still matter, because automatic scores don't catch every problem, and some errors are subtle.
Bottom line: translation with GPT is strong for big languages but not perfect, and work is needed for low-resource languages.
If you like language tech, this shows promise but also where help is needed, so more testing should happen.

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How Good Are GPT Models at Machine Translation? A Comprehensive Evaluation

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