Has any work been done on AI as a translating tool? I suppose I'm thinking of the 'LL' in 'LLM' . My particular use case is an SBC which I'm sure is better documented in Chinese than it is in English. But I only have the English

There are lots of translation programs out there, so it's a safe bet that the functionalits will be incorporated in LLMs, if they have not been already.

There may be a good chance you can find an existing application to serve your purpose without having to mess with an LLM.

I've had great success using both the ai built into Google Search, the 'Grok' ai on the 'X dot com' website, and the standalone ai at xAI's 'Grok dot com'. I don't remember trying any Chinese, mostly English-to-Latin-to-Koine Greek.

Thanks for all the replies, Guys.

I get it. The one thing nearly everyone misses is the gobbledygook, the jargon, whether it be electronic, scientific, business or whatever. Thanks for the suggestions.

In General, there's no "Mark this solved." Perhaps there should be, because it is for me.

https://github.com/GNOME/gtranslator
https://github.com/DeepLcom

Yes, there are large language models. Google for one. And anyone can use it. And without an api key for small amounts of text.

What are you trying to translate? A book or a few lines of text.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...les-api-38971/

Update that user agent.

I was having great trouble standing up an Orange Pi 5 and knew there's better forum support & tech docs in Chinese. But I actually sorted it, and have it working. I gave it a hostname from an old (Kenny Rogers?) song:

For some reason, I've never actually (yet ...) researched what algorithms are used for human language translation these days. But, they have become quite good.

I do, however, remember an early story that was actually true. A Russian/English effort (in the 60's ...) was given the phrase, "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." It was sent "there and back," and what it came up with was: "The wine is acceptable, but the meat has spoiled." Oops.

On your early Russian effort:

I heard it as: "The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out."

'The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak' is hardly typical English. It's a translation of first century Greek, not spoken by native Greek speakers either. Translating that stuff needs a larger sample, more context.

English as a language has hundreds of thousands of words. Milton's 'Paradise Lost' had over 100,000 different words included. Latin had about 20k-30k words, and Greek about 15k words, so the words had many possible meanings. Latin & Greek also varied tense and person by changing the verbs so the number of root meanings was smaller again, giving them more meanings.

How many possible translations are there of spirit? Half a dozen at least. I despair of an accurate translation when I see three or four words of Latin (& sometimes pig Latin) in a sigfile.

Lets see.

KVJ
the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Old time Koine greek:

WH (alexandrian)
το μεν πνευμα προθυμον η δε σαρξ ασθενης

F35 family (Byzantine)
Τὸ μὲν πνεῦμα πρόθυμον, ἡ δὲ σὰρξ ἀσθενής

This is how googles AI translates that.
El
Το πνεύμα είναι πράγματι πρόθυμο, αλλά η σάρκα είναι αδύναμη.

Ru
Дух действительно готов, но плоть слаба.

Tranlate that Russian back in to english.
The spirit is really ready, but the flesh is weak.

Googles translator does pretty good.

I tried NLLB-200 and it's not bad at all.

DeepL is pretty fleshed out these days, and that one uses AI. I think it was originally made just for Japanese but it got expanded.

Yes, I looked at it a while back. You need an api key for it. Google can be used without one.
https://github.com/DeepLcom/deepl-python