Many people are amazed at what Artificial Intelligence is capable of doing so far, from analyzing massive amounts of texts, to creating pretty good videos, or helping children cheat by doing their homework and thinking on their behalf.
Very insightful!. I suppose one of the differences is that AI cannot tell you what it feels like to learn a language… or to forget one, or to re remember it as you reconnect with the information.
Indeed. The "human experience" is missing. But what is interesting is that the lack thereof doesn't seem to influence language proficiency. For AI, there doesn't seem to be any learning from its mistakes, or any suffering. That is something that makes our own existence a school, a ground for learning. But unlike what has been believed for decades, perhaps language is not a ley element in that learning, and more like a tool. Instead of "language makes us human", it should perhaps be "humans make (pre-existing) language human", thereby using it for our own learning purposes.
Very insightful!. I suppose one of the differences is that AI cannot tell you what it feels like to learn a language… or to forget one, or to re remember it as you reconnect with the information.
Indeed. The "human experience" is missing. But what is interesting is that the lack thereof doesn't seem to influence language proficiency. For AI, there doesn't seem to be any learning from its mistakes, or any suffering. That is something that makes our own existence a school, a ground for learning. But unlike what has been believed for decades, perhaps language is not a ley element in that learning, and more like a tool. Instead of "language makes us human", it should perhaps be "humans make (pre-existing) language human", thereby using it for our own learning purposes.