Why learn another language if you could get ChatGPT to do a high quality translation for you?
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
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Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
#2Because some people actually talk to other people in person?
Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
#3Because some people actually talk to other people in person?
So why can't you use high quality translation tech for that purpose?
Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
#4There are some pretty neat devices that are similar to audio recording devices that you can speak into and it will speak the translation for you. A friend of mine got one for a trip to Japan and apparently it worked pretty well!
Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
#5I've seen ChatGPT's English output, and I'd really prefer to not sound like it in other languages.
Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
#6There are some pretty neat devices that are similar to audio recording devices that you can speak into and it will speak the translation for you. A friend of mine got one for a trip to Japan and apparently it worked pretty well!
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Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
#7If you don't understand the language it's translating into, how do you tell if the result is "high-quality" or not? ChatGPT will merrily hallucinate plausible nonsense pretty frequently...
Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
#8ChatGPT can be confidently and subtly wrong about many subjects. It is most useful when you can verify its answers with low overhead. A language that I am still learning is one of the things for which I am _least_ equipped to do that.
Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT in competition with Duolingo?
#9Given how terrible it is at solving crossword clues, or even answering simple questions like how long words are or "what's the 7th letter of the word 'eyebrow'" (apparently it's "b", and "eyebrow" is 8 letters long), I'm not convinced it's competition with many things language-related just yet...