There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?
There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?
Further, if you are afraid of the misinformation potential of AI to manipulate people recognize that a person can easily learn two languages and learn to understand how to leap in ways between them that a LLM could never do.
If you want an LLM to learn how to speak fluently in two languages you have to create two ecological catastrophies in order to make it happen, I just have to read a book.
Just by virtue of conversing in different languages and more importantly finding a joy in their confounding diversity and endless lessons they subvert our worldviews with, we make it harder and harder for LLMs to be used by authoritarian entities to steer the conversation in ways that are evil, disrespect the opinions of others or degrade the nuance of conversations that are too important for them to let us have.
People mistake AI being shown to be able to copy human language in a given context so well that humans can’t distinguish between robots and humans anymore in that context as proof that AI is more intelligent than us and we are hopeless against it, but in reality it is simply an exhaustive proof the vital diversity (in that particular context) necessary to create new ideas died long ago.
Ima be real I’m not 100% sure what you’re on about. I’d agree that LLMs can’t really function to dissolve identitarian barriers, though they are clearly much more effective than prior methods. Things change and they rarely roll back, unfortunately.