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DavidPiper on July 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishfu...

Translation, transcription, and code generation (up to some scale) were borderline intractable problems?

Google Translate, Whisper and Code Generators (up to some scale) have existed for quite some time without using LLMs.

famouswaffles on July 5, 2025 [–]

Google Translate just spits out nonsense for distant language pairs (English<->Korean etc) and doesn't compare to Sota LLMs, Whisper is a Transformer (Architecture used for LLMs) and Code Generators have nothing on LLMs.

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