Function calling cannot be translated correctly

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When I use function calling, I cannot obtain the translation result correctly.

The results are normal when not using function calling.

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When using the GPT-3.5-turbo-0613 model, I intended to translate into Korean, but it still returned English.

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When using the GPT-4-0613 model, the returned result is still in English.

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How can I use the function calling feature to obtain translation results correctly?

Thanks!

– The above content is translated from: ChatGPT.

2

Can you provide the exact request in plain text? So I can help to take a look.

3

Is Python code acceptable?

import openai
import json

# Load your API key from an environment variable or secret management service
openai.api_key = ""


def get_translate(from_lan, to_lan, result):
  """translate text from from_lan to to_lan"""
  print("from_type", from_lan, "to_type", to_lan, ": ", result)

will_translate = "한국어로 번역: 'Are you English'"

# Step 1: send the conversation and available functions to GPT
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": will_translate}]
functions = [
  {
    "name": "translate_to_chinese",
    "description": "translate text from from_lan to to_lan",
    "parameters": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "from_lan": { "type": "string", "description": "Language type to be translated" },
        "to_lan": { "type": "string", "description": "Language type of the translation result" },
        "result": { "type": "string", "description": "Translation result" },
      },
      "required": ["from_lan", "to_lan", "result"],
    },
  }
]
response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo-0613",
    messages=messages,
    functions=functions,
    function_call="auto",  # auto is default, but we'll be explicit
)

print("response is", response)

Thanks!

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Hi @bihacats

If you want the model to translate text for you, simply tell the model to translate user message to whatever language.

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Function calling returns the function call in JSON. It doesn’t execute the function, that’s your responsibility.

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I originally thought it would convert the output of ChatGPT into the JSON format I desired.
So, Function calling simply converts my request into a function that I can invoke, is that correct?

6

Yes, the docs state:

In an API call, you can describe functions to gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 and gpt-4-0613 , and have the model intelligently choose to output a JSON object containing arguments to call those functions. The Chat Completions API does not call the function; instead, the model generates JSON that you can use to call the function in your code.