ChatGPT’s Translation Skills Parallel Those of Most Human Translators

Yue Zhang, the associate dean of the school of engineering at Westlake University in Hangzhou, China, notes that over the past two decades, there has been “a major paradigm shift” in the capabilities of machine learning algorithms, and points to a particularly large leap in performance seen in the newest generation of LLMs. But just how well do these models perform in terms of language translation? “While there have been claims of ‘human parity’ in the past, these have been debated,” he says.