I asked AI to tell me about katakana-kanji compound words

Google Gemini gave this very insightful answer. I hope it will help you all in your studies. :wink:



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Reminder No. 4683 that AI does not understand the words it produces.

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Am i the only one to think this AI calls kanji what is clearly katakana? Most of what it calls katakana-kanji compound is pure katakana.

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That’s the joke, it’s all katakana.

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P. S. The text I typed in katakana (and hopefully didn’t mess up):

これは地球です。
太陽から三番目の星です。
色々の生物が多い星です。
人間という知識がある種類もいます。

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I’m all for recommending caution with LLMs and Japanese, because they can assert very wrong things very confidently, but this gives me flashbacks of people taking screenshots of GPT-3.5 to show how terrible AI is while GPT-4 was already solving it…

Yes, the small model of Gemini 1.5 (Flash) OP used botch it, but the big model doesn’t.

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