>Claude speaks dozens of languages fluently—from English and French to Chinese and Tagalog. How does this multilingual ability work? Is there a separate "French Claude" and "Chinese Claude" running in parallel, responding to requests in their own language? Or is there some cross-lingual core inside?
I have an interesting test case for this.
Take a popular enough Japanese game that has been released for long enough for social media discussions to be in the training data, but not so popular to have an English release yet. Then ask it a plot question, something major enough to be discussed, but enough of a spoiler that it won't show up in marketing material. Does asking in Japanese have it return information that is lacking when asked in English, or can it answer the question in English based on the information in learned in Japanese?
I tried this recently with a JRPG that was popular enough to have a fan translation but not popular enough to have a simultaneous English release. English did not know the plot point, but I didn't have the Japanese skill to confirm if the Japanese version knew the plot point, or if discussion was too limited for the AI to be aware of it. It did know of the JRPG and did know of the marketing material around it, so it wasn't simply a case of my target being too niche.
I have an interesting test case for this.
Take a popular enough Japanese game that has been released for long enough for social media discussions to be in the training data, but not so popular to have an English release yet. Then ask it a plot question, something major enough to be discussed, but enough of a spoiler that it won't show up in marketing material. Does asking in Japanese have it return information that is lacking when asked in English, or can it answer the question in English based on the information in learned in Japanese?
I tried this recently with a JRPG that was popular enough to have a fan translation but not popular enough to have a simultaneous English release. English did not know the plot point, but I didn't have the Japanese skill to confirm if the Japanese version knew the plot point, or if discussion was too limited for the AI to be aware of it. It did know of the JRPG and did know of the marketing material around it, so it wasn't simply a case of my target being too niche.