Latvian is a language, that's spoken by less than 2 million people. It's irrelevant outside of Latvia. All of our government funded researchers who worked on n

Latvian is a language, that's spoken by less than 2 million people. It's irrelevant outside of Latvia. All of our government funded researchers who worked on natural language processing can now throw their work in the trash and resign. ChatGPT is leagues better than anything that they've done. And OpenAI weren't even trying. Windows wasn't even localised in Latvian properly until very recently. Google translate still spits out ridiculous translations. (Though it's better than before). Most software isn't even available in Latvian. Almost no video games are in Latvian. Only the most popular books and movies are being translated. Interested in something less popular - you better learn other languages. And now ChatGPT comes out and I can ask it to write C++ functions in Latvian. I don't need to learn English to be a programmer any more. Nothing like that has been done before. It translates stuff way better than google. And it will only get better. Imagine that there's a book that only 50 people from Latvia are interested in. Human translators aren't going to bother. But ChatGPT can do it easily. This is a very big deal.