The initial users of my first launched Pickaxe are mostly English speakers, so the question of multi-language capability didn’t even cross my mind. So I was surprised this morning to see that one user had asked the bot, in French, if the chat could be conducted in French, and the bot responded, in French! Ironically, it said, in French, that no, it can’t speak French! So I simply added one line to the prompt, instructing the bot to always switch to whatever language is used by the user. The bot now appears to be doing exactly that. I see that OpenAI says its models can communicate in more than 50 languages, representing 97 percent of the world’s population. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who makes use of this multi-language capability.
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That’s funny; I’ve had folks engage with my Pickaxes in other languages and typically seen it respond as if someone approach a stranger using a foreign tongue they both held as their first language.
I have yet to see it respond that it won’t work using a different language.
@intellibotique I suspect the reason my “Menno” initially declined to switch the conversation to French is that my instructions told him to reflect the capabilities of Menno Simons as a 16th century Dutch religious leader (who did not speak French). Now that I have specifically instructed him to respond in whatever language the user employs, this bot appears entirely able to do that.
Yeah, that makes a ton of sense actually.