ChatGPT can translate & transliterate

I was amused to find that ChatGPT can not only translate between languages but also transliterate -

OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman in his TED talk says its good to be polite (to chatbots). I added "please" in my question as these bots may become our masters some day ;-)

I provided a joke in Telugu script to ChatGPT and added in English - "explain this joke". Although it missed the punch line, it did a fair job understanding a question in mixed language and explaining some of the elements of the joke.