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This as a peer-to-peer service, between advanced and junior students of the language, might be a neat service
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He’s talking about unnatural (non-idiomatic) language. That’s not an issue you can fix with better grammar; there are many language learners who possess good intonation and pronunciation, and natural (idiomatic) speech, but poor grammar: their idiomatic speech more than makes up for grammatical mistakes. Source: learning languages for 10+, have met students as described above.
I interacted a bit with the AI and the Portuguese is fine, it's just that it conjugates, uses the proper pronouns, etc. These things a typical Brazilian does not do. The difference between standard Portuguese and oral language in Brazil is enormous.
Native speakers are lazy: even though they know perfectly well how to conjugate the numbers, it’s easier to rephrase things so you don’t have to.
Languages are fascinating!
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My feeling is companies don't invest in this because there isn't much return they expect from it. If gamers are more interested in playing with other humans than interacting with in-game characters, spending a lot on the AI to make it work might not make sense economically. I'm no insider, but I imagine the same sort of reasoning is applied to when companies don't invest enough in opponent AI to make them continuousl…
Let's found a startup, wsgeorge... Unreal Engine is popular because it removes the effort of designing and building a 3D engine from game creation (and it's my understanding that because it has fairly reasonable licensing agreement). PRATTLE, or Persistent Realistic AI for Talk and Text Language & Engagement, could be the Unreal Engine of procedurally generated NPC speech in games! And it already has a name... all we…