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Claude3 - Day 2 - Reviews
A Cunning Linguist
Ah, innovation! After our initial impressions, Claude3 has taken us back to the halcyon days of 2022, when we first began to play around with emergent capabilities. Claude turns out to be a spectacular linguist, able to learn languages on the fly from large numbers of translation pairs:
I've been working on NLP for my mother tongue - the Circassian language for the past 2 years. Circassian is very low-resource, with negligible internet presence. It's a part of the Circassian-Abkhaz isolated language group, meaning they have no related languages. Its complex morphology & limited data make it a serious challenge for language models.Over these years I painstakingly curated 64K translation pairs from scarce sources & trained specialized models (T5, MLM-100, NLLB-…
