Translation with Gemini
How far can we go with Gemini for translations? We reviewed some of Gemini’s NLP abilities in Chapter 3, Emergent vs Downstream Tasks: The Unseen Depths of Transformers. Now, we will create a dialog with Gemini to explore its potential and limitations.
Go to https://gemini.google.com/ to start a dialog.
Needless to say, Gemini has been trained with large datasets in scores of languages.
We will begin with Gemini’s potential and then search for its limitations.
My prompt begins with Denis:
Gemini’s comprehensive response follows my prompt that ends with a question mark.
Gemini’s potential
Denis: Can you translate a sentence from English to French?
Yes, I can translate a sentence from English to French. For example, if you say "I am a large language model," the translation would be "Je suis un grand modèle linguistique."
Here are some other examples of English-to-French translations...