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Today's submarine from the NYT is hilariously unintentionally unflattering, did someone even proof read this? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/openai-new-gpt...

  Mnemonics to learn basic words:
  Hola:"Hola, cola" - sounds like "cola" (Coke)
  Adiós: "Adiós, my toes" - rhymes with "toes"
  Gracias: "Gracias, grassy ass" - sounds like "grassy ass"
  Mañana: "Mañana, banana" - rhymes with "banana"
  Uno: "Uno, you know" - sounds like "you know"
  Tres: "Tres, dress" - rhymes with "dress"

  Conjugation of the verbs:
  Ser (To be)

  • Yo soy
  • Tú eres
  • Él/Ella/Usted es
  • Nosotros/Nosotras somos
  • Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes son


> Mañana: "Mañana, banana" - rhymes with "banana"

Uh... Almost?

> Gracias: "Gracias, grassy ass" - sounds like "grassy ass"

This seems like it would encourage very coarse pronunciation with an obnoxious accent.

Overall this appears relatively bad. I'm not sure why they would want this to be publicly visible yet.


Mañana does rhyme with banana, what do you mean?

But yeah, the mnemonics are awful.


Probably depends on the accent you have. I'm from the US, and the way I say 'banana' doesn't rhyme with mañana, but I can imagine my English friends saying it, which would rhyme.


Yeah, not great, these pronunciation hints kind of sound like what a naive english speaker would guess just from looking at the words (and similarly, like a beginner speaker with a heavy english accent).


Next token prediction is remarkably bad at mnemonic generation, even in English. Add another, lower-resourced language, and it will be really bad. For what it's worth 'cola' does rhyme with 'hola' and 'you know' rhymes with 'uno', but none of the other combos are even rhymes.


it says "uno" sounds like "you know", which is incorrect.




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