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		tivert on Sept 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings t... > Claude Sonnet translates Mandarin to English almost perfectly. Do you personally know Mandarin well enough to judge the quality of a translation? Because you can't do that from just looking at the output.

brigadier132 on Sept 24, 2024 [–]

You can test it by comparing human translations with LLM translations. The results are pretty close. Like I said in another comment, the common failure mode with mandarin is around names and genders

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