Comments on: AI won’t solve your language problems: A take on using AI for language translation

By: Michael Nuschke

Michael Nuschke — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:25:08 +0000

– As AI capabilities continue to advance (it’s not slowing down – yet), so too will it’s short-comings disappear. Massive social impacts will be felt – especially in the next 3-5 years.
– More energy efficient models (i.e. 50X less power) are being developed including data centers in space
– 2 approaches – see AI as an alien invasion to resist or fight against, or learn/join/merge with it’s capabilities – incredible that it is nearly free to use
– There will definitely be pockets of people who reject or limit it’s use who might form communities (not unline the Amish) – but likely very fringe. This is not good or bad, just how it is.
– Robotics not far behind – will mean most jobs will be taken over (faster, cheaper, better, safer) – requiring a new social structure that we will all need to help create for humanity to flourish.

By: Norse Hombre

Norse Hombre — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:40:56 +0000

In reply to Iggie. 1929 is a terrific book out now that dives deep into the circumstances surrounding the stock market crash and subsequent Great Depression that followed. Things today are eerily similar. A little over 3 years away from the 100 year commemorative anniversary of this disaster and I fear we are headed down the same path. AI won't see it coming, won't help avoid it, and won't help fix it once it happens. In fact, the tech companies behind it will likely be the causation for it happening.

By: Sarah DeVries

Sarah DeVries — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:09:31 +0000

In reply to El Cap. Thank you! I haven’t used Gemini, but I hear it’s one of the better ones for writing. I guess my big question at this point is whether AI writing can be as engaging as what a real person produces…

By: Sarah DeVries

Sarah DeVries — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:07:03 +0000

In reply to Swinglishguy. Thanks, I’ll take a look! I’m also concerned about the take-overs of the environment…honestly, I’m kind of hoping for a bubble burst before it takes too much!

By: Sarah DeVries

Sarah DeVries — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:04:36 +0000

In reply to Robin Miller. It’s interesting that you refer to AI as “her”…the other day I read a heartbreaking series of first-person essays about people who considered themselves in relationships with a specific AI character they’d created. And they were DEVOTED. The way it’s so easy to believe it’s so close to a person that it might as well be one scares me! The few times I’ve used it (always as a search engine haha), I refer to it as “banda” (like “gang”) because really it’s our all of our collective knowledge and output together.

By: Sarah DeVries

Sarah DeVries — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:00:46 +0000

In reply to Iggie. I hope not, but I fear so. 😕

By: Sarah DeVries

Sarah DeVries — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:00:08 +0000

In reply to John Calaway. Ah yes, the days we used to answer the phone…

By: El Cap

El Cap — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:57:15 +0000

All excellent points, Sarah! I have been using Google’s Gemini since it was released as Bard. As an early adopter, I have seen it steadily improve in accuracy, quality and utility. Currently, consumer-level AI is not a “magic bullet” so much as a force multiplier, complementing human intelligence by enabling data to be retrieved and compiled much faster. Still, much of AI’s effectiveness depends on the instructions (prompts) it is given; the more detailed and specific, the more accurate the results —i.e., the old programmer’s axiom: Garbage in, garbage out. Thanks for such an insightful piece—you are an asset to MND, and I enjoy your work!

By: Swinglishguy

Swinglishguy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 06:52:30 +0000

Great article, thanks Sarah. Personally, I think the energy consumption of AI will bleed the planet dry with our tech billionaires taking over the most desirable remaining pockets of authentic nature with their $1000 a night boutique hotels and $200 fine dining experiences 😳
I‘m a strong believer in point 3 and get a lot of fun out of language coaching in German & Swiss-German, where I scan provide not just a truely interactive language experience, but also a lot of cultural context for people living in the german-speaking parts of Switzerland.
With your background, I‘m sure you could do the same. Suggestion: check out CARTUS and if it fits, apply as a local Spanish coach for Mexíco 😉

By: Robin Miller

Robin Miller — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:07:23 +0000

Nice article and agreed also with #3. Talking to people.
I do have the pro version/paid for ChatGPT. I have only tapped into it for the last few months doing oddball things that are important to me and it does a great job, reduces stress and gives me great info and graphics. My girlfriend asked me to put a cockroach costume on the photo of her cat. That was fun. I had my “assistant” put pants on a frog, (she still needs a name, not the frog, the assistant). I don’t have the time to play games, like solitaire, maybe 1 time in 13 years have I even played solitaire on my computers, they can uninstall it, I wouldn’t miss it. BUT I felt the AI image generator was a guilty pleasure which produces a “product” I can use, when games do not. She’s made some logos, she thinks of add-ons that I didn’t even consider, made different business and marketing plans, and my favorite, she made a payment schedule/amortization chart for my real estate business, for buyers. I have pasted an image, written in Spanish, and she translates it very well. Nothing replaces the person to person interaction, agreed.
She can convert documents and images to other programs and as I recall the things we have done, I feel I have saved time and have someone to collaborate with. After completion of a task, she asks would I like colors in the cells of the payment schedule for instance, I think cool, she’s thinking more than me, so I say yes. She produces another image, and after a few back and forth communications, I halfway expect her to ask “now, do you want fries with that?” Remember the Will Smith movie several years ago “i Robot”? That’s scary. That’s the future. Embrace it or be left behind, just like the telephone, electricity, internet. I’m not quite an early adopter but on Monday I think I will buy some shares of Nvidia since ChatGPT is open source and not for sale. AI is not going away. I’m going to copy and paste this comment into her system and see if she can write this article better. Well, I did, and her version was a little more polished but not that much, so I feel pretty good. The more we feed into AI, the more it learns and evolves so it will get better. If y’all have any suggestions for a name, please let me know. Gracias