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One kind of text generation AI it already makes obsolete, is specialized translation models. It's no surprise it outdoes Google Translate, that feels like it hasn't been updated in a while. But it also outdoes Deepl now, and Deepl is good.

And it seems to handle translating from low-resource languages extremely well. Into them, it's a bit harder to judge.

It handles translation between closely related languages such as Swedish and Norwegian extremely well. Google Translate goes via English and accumulates pointless errors.




It sucks at morse code.




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