Comment by deanishe
12 hours ago
> how do we know the Spanish was translated perfectly, without a massive detail review
You can't. I think that's a large part of why LLMs have caught on much better with programmers: they have ways of making the computer check its own work.
Checking a document is still a laborious manual task. And completely unfulfilling.
And that's the trap. Relying on a "perfectly" crafted test or a LLM to verify what is unknown. Yes, LLMs can be very useful, but perhaps it's best for us to be realistic.
> making the computer check its own work
Kind of like the Spanish teacher telling his students they can grade their own tests, then being surprised that Billy was always giving himself 100%, when he's nowhere near that bright or fluent.
It wouldn't be so bad, if people were more upfront with being unsure or made it clear they were extrapolating from smaller and limited data. But usually, like many of these unusually cocky LLMs, what is too often reported to the public is "perfection" and many inconvenient truths "swept underneath the carpet".