I teach and do research on foreign-language education at the University of Tokyo. Machine translation was already a challenge to many of our assumptions about t

I teach and do research on foreign-language education at the University of Tokyo. Machine translation was already a challenge to many of our assumptions about the purposes and methods of language learning, but ChatGPT has raised even bigger issues that I, at least, do not yet grasp. The best way to begin to understand those issues is to discuss them with others, and I have been very grateful to be able to read the many discussions of ChatGPT on Hacker News over the past week. If anyone is interested in my thoughts on ChatGPT and language education, I am trying to put them together on the following page: https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/index.html https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/index.html