Multilingual support in LLMs is not a nice-to-have
I remember back in November 2022, when ChatGPT was released and everyone was going crazy about how smart and humanlike it was. I sat down and started talking to it in Czech. After reading so many raving reviews and hyperbolic predictions, I was shocked by how quickly I ran into the model’s limits in Czech. Now don’t get me wrong: I know my native tongue is not a top-tier language, given it only has about 10 million native speakers. I don’t expect AI models to be as proficient in Czech as in English or other major languages. But it still made me think: if I am getting a much worse experience from large language models than English speakers are, what is the experience like for people who speak languages with even less digital support? ...