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Don't forget that this thing is way cheaper than a human. Of course I'd prefer to hire a real language tutor or a real artist on Fiverr, but for many use-cases
by hackerlight 4y ago
Don't forget that this thing is way cheaper than a human. Of course I'd prefer to hire a real language tutor or a real artist on Fiverr, but for many use-cases (e.g. my first 3 months learning a new language) I am happy for something 98% as good for 1% of the price. Not everything is a binary where the tutor/helper/artist needs to be absolutely perfect else it's completely useless. There are low stakes use cases where you don't need perfection and are happy to accept that trade-off for the lower cost. So the real comparison in many situations is between using ChatGPT as a language tutor, and not having a language tutor at all, and I know which one I'd prefer.
- asdff 4y agoIf you can't afford the tutor, then its not really a tradeoff between chatgpt and the tutor. Its a tradoff between chatgpt and some other way to spend your time to learn a language. I suspect you'd probably advance faster through your first three months of a language spending the same chunks of time with a language learning book from the library than with chatgpt, which might very well be teaching you how to conjugate a verb in latin instead of spanish or some other error the model makes.