ChatGPT, AI & Language Learning with @LucaLampariello

Today I have a special guest, my good friend Luca Lampariello

and we're gonna talk about new stuff, ChatGPT, AI, artificial Intelligence,

all the different ways that technology is going to affect language learning. Luca, good morning,

good afternoon, good evening. Luca: Nice to see you, Steve,

as always. Um, thanks for the invitation. Steve: Now you being the globe trotter

that you are, where do we find you? Luca: It's just my place in Rome, you know,

it's just a, my simple place in Rome here. Okay. I'm gonna be here for a little bit and then I've

gotta be traveling, uh, quite a lot this summer. Steve: Ah-huh . Um, so we hear these

buzzwords ChatGPT, AI, I don't know, web 3.0. Steve: And, and then on the other hand, you hear

these people saying, well, technology is gonna make it unnecessary to learn languages. Where do

you stand on all this stuff? Have you used any of it? Or are you using aspects of artificial

intelligence in your language learning? Luca: So, um, I'm using as, as you are

using like the internet in general. Luca: Um, and more specifically if you ask

me specifically about artificial intelligence tools, I think at the end of the day, we use,

we've been using them for a long time. Let me give you an example of that,

Google Translate or Deep L uh, or all these systems that where you can, for example,

LingQ, uh, LingQ does that as well. Luca: You just click on a word, behind that,

there's algorithms that process the information and transforms that information from one language

to the other. So we've been using that. Apart from ChatGPT, which is the new thing. But we've

been using technology and artificial intelligence for a long time. Um, now let me tell you this,

as you yourself say in a lot of videos, um, this is the golden era uh, of language learning.

Nothing... like, never, never in, in, in, uh, modern history have his language learning become

so easy to actually do, right. So, uh, absolutely. So I believe that technology is facilitating the

acquisition of any language. Nowadays we have a wealth of possibilities, but we also have to take

into account that we still learn with our brain. Luca: Whatever happens when it comes to language

running happens here in our head. So I think one thing we have to take into account is, uh, you

know, I think we have to educate ourselves and also educate the next generation to use the tools

that we have for our benefit because, uh, the internet and also the artificial intelligence

has pros and cons, like everything. Luca: So it's up to us to understand how

to use it, um, you know, to, to learn languages better and in general to have a better life.

Steve: Absolutely. And, uh, and we'll get into ChatGPT. I mean, text to speech, uh,

obviously is an application of, uh, uh, artificial intelligence.

Um, you know, and I'm on LingQ. If I click on a word, I can hear it.

Steve: Artificial voice. I wouldn't use that for, uh, any long period of text.

But if I come across a word in Arabic and I can't figure out how to pronounce it,

I'll just click on it and I hear it. So text to speech dictation. Uh, we can use dictation

now on our various. Uh, also just to find stuff on the internet, you know, find content also,

like I'll find, I get podcasts in the language I'm learning, and I'll put it on an automatic

transcription website to get a transcript. Steve: It's 90%, it's not ideal, but it's