A.I. - The END of Language Learning?

Lots of people seem to think that I’m not real.  Apparently I’m AI generated! Maybe it’s true!

There’s a lot of talk about how artificial  intelligence is going to change the world   in the coming years. A lot of jobs that  people do today will probably disappear,   and a lot of the skills that we  think are important to learn will   probably become irrelevant, because  AI will be better at them than humans.

How about the skill of being able  to speak another language? Will it   become irrelevant? In some ways it probably will.

You didn’t know I was fluent  in Turkish, did you? Actually,   I’m not. That wasn’t me speaking Turkish.  That was AI. I was speaking English and the   AI tool translated it into Turkish. Let’s see that  again - and pay attention to how my mouth moves.

You can see that the AI tool is producing  a Turkish translation in my own voice,   and it even controls the movements of my mouth to  make it look like it’s really me that’s speaking.

The specific tool that I’m using is  called HeyGen. The way it works is   that you can upload a video of yourself and  it translates it into a different language.

You get the point. I’m sure the results are not  perfect, but they seem pretty good. If you’re a   native speaker of Turkish, Chinese, or German,  what do you think of the translation? Does it   seem authentic, or at least pretty good?  Let us know in the comments down below.