Questão 15 - Unichristus 2023/2

    Chat GPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages. It is not only able to generate remarkably realistic English, but it is also able to instantly blurt out text in more than 50 languages – the precise number is apparently unknown to the system itself.

    Asked (in Spanish) how many languages it can speak, ChatGPT replies, vaguely, “more than 50”, explaining that its ability to produce text will depend on how much training data is available for any given language. Then, asked a question in an unannounced switch to Portuguese, it offers up a sketch of your columnist’s biography in that language. Most of it was correct, but it had him studying the wrong subject at the wrong university. The language itself was impeccable, and Portuguese is one of the world’s biggest languages.

Disponível em: www.economist.com. Acesso em: 5 jun. 2023 (adaptado).

 

Even by the standards of tech innovations, ChatGPT’s public launch last year was extreme. However, the article from the Economist says that the artificial intelligence