用人工智能翻译科学拉丁语文本：欧拉及其同时代人的著作
Translating scientific Latin texts with artificial intelligence: the works of Euler and contemporaries
AI总结：
本研究通过基准测试和实际信件翻译，比较谷歌翻译与ChatGPT在翻译欧拉等科学拉丁语文献上的表现，发现ChatGPT更优，可助力解决大量未译文献的翻译难题。
AI中文摘要：
研究早期科学文献的主要障碍在于缺乏将拉丁语翻译成现代语言的译本。这一点对于欧拉的著作尤为突出，他撰写了约850份手稿，写了一千封信，并收到了近两千封回信。在过去两个世纪中，这些手稿、书籍和信件中的许多译本已在各种来源中出版，但仍有更多尚未问世。幸运的是，如今人工智能（AI）翻译可以用来规避翻译如此大量文本的挑战。为了验证这一工具，我们进行了基准测试，以比较两种流行的AI翻译算法——即谷歌翻译和ChatGPT——的性能。此外，还进行了额外测试，翻译了1739年约翰·伯努利致欧拉的一封信的节选，在信中他宣布将把手稿《水力学》的第一部分寄给欧拉。总体而言，比较结果显示，ChatGPT不仅在基准测试中表现优于谷歌翻译，而且在这封信的翻译中也更胜一筹，凸显了ChatGPT作为翻译工具的优越性，不仅适用于普通拉丁语使用者，而且对专业拉丁语翻译者也大有裨益。
英文摘要：
The major hindrance in the study of earlier scientific literature is the availability of Latin translations into modern languages. This is particular true for the works of Euler who authored about 850 manuscripts and wrote a thousand letters and received back almost two thousand more. The translation of many of these manuscripts, books and letters have been published in various sources over the last two centuries, but many more have not yet appeared. Fortunately, nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) translation can be used to circumvent the challenges of translating such substantial number of texts. To validate this tool, benchmark tests have been performed to compare the performance of two popular AI translating algorithms, namely Google Translate and ChatGPT. Additional tests were accomplished in translating an excerpt of a 1739 letter from Johann Bernoulli to Euler, where he announces that he was sending Euler the first part of his manuscript Hydraulica. Overall, the comparative results show that ChatGPT performed better that Google Translate not only in the benchmark tests but also in the translation of this letter, highlighting the superiority of ChatGPT as a translation tool, catering not only to general Latin practitioners but also proving beneficial for specialized Latin translators.
