Comment by input_sh
5 days ago
Both, but primarily due to the lack of training materials. 10 or so million native speakers of my language will never be able to generate the same amount of training material as over a billion English speakers do.
There is a steep drop in quality in any non-English language, but in general less native speakers = worse results. They tend to have a certain "voice" which is extremely easy to spot and the accuracy of results goes out the window (way worse than in English).
Right, but it’s interesting that means its reasoning abilities potentially drop off when it’s talking Thai, or its knowledge of WW2 history in the Eastern Theatre might drop off when speaking French, where the same model has no trouble with the same questions in English. My French and Thai are both rudimentary, but I’m working from the same set of facts and reasoning ability in both languages. Will it give different answers on what the greatest empire that ever existed was if you ask it in Mandarin vs Italian vs Mongolian?