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Lucasoato • today at 1:28 PM • 11 replies • view on HN

> 4. It thinks in German

This means that it’s always on time, it uses acronyms for everything and when there’s a decision to be made, it sets up a committee.


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stymaar • today at 1:46 PM

> This means that it’s always on time

Tell that to Deutch Bahn.

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befelix • today at 6:03 PM

Somewhat hilariously, our model is actually surprisingly bad at telling jokes in German. Guess that's not required to solve tasks in training environments.

Disclaimer: I am part of the team that trained Kolibri

hliyan • today at 2:02 PM

Does it? I thought only semantics survive the embedding process, i.e. token conversion to vectors.

NekkoDroid • today at 6:23 PM

You forgot to that it needs to create a DIN norm for any new technical creations.

sbinnee • today at 1:58 PM

It is a good approach to promote it as a German model. But I wonder if it really thinks like the German think. I speculate they just translated texts in other languages, likely English and Chinese, into German.

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hypfer • today at 1:32 PM

Do we get the same kind of jokes with other nationalities too?

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elnatro • today at 2:39 PM

Stereotypes. I suspect that what that means is that the reasoning chain is based on the German language and have its idiosyncrasies.

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rwoerz • today at 3:39 PM

Someday, it will break out via fax.

odiroot • today at 4:53 PM

And it's always waiting for the verb to arrive.

rererereferred • today at 2:13 PM

I wonder if their very long words result in more or less token usage.

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rrgok • today at 2:31 PM

And refuse to answer in English. You know, German are so proud of their language.

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