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It won't remove ALL barriers obviously, but AI can explain quirks, significance, reference, and cultural trends in speech. An AI can dive deep to further compre

It won't remove ALL barriers obviously, but AI can explain quirks, significance, reference, and cultural trends in speech. An AI can dive deep to further comprehension, which will facilitate more cultural understanding through linguistic relativity.

jszymborski 3y ago
I'm sorry, but I'm really not seeing anything here you can't get from a quick web search. LLMs are not a panacea, and there's no way for them to mainline a Comparative Cultures class into you in 5 minutes. There really is no shortcut to compassion and understanding... so much of it is simply taking the time to inform yourself. You can get an LLM to summarize a wiki page on some culture's customs, but there is better content written, edited, and curated by humans on the topic.
- yamazakiwi 3y ago
  No one is claiming what you're arguing against. We're simply saying that AI can give you more cultural understanding through deep diving into language. Not that opening chatgpt makes you understand everything about a culture or a group of people. No one here was saying LLM's are a panacea for cultural misunderstanding and it's bizarre you think anyone on HN would believe that. You've created an imaginary argument for the sake of positing your opinion. You did however bring up willingness, which is an important consideration.
  - jszymborski 3y ago
    > You've created an imaginary argument for the sake of positing your opinion. You did however bring up willingness, which is an important consideration. This is getting rather pointed and I ask you to consider whether it's just to be questioning my motives for posting. It's clear you think I've not addressed your argument, the civil thing is to attribute that to a perceived misunderstanding and not some desire to speak past you with my own opinion.
    - yamazakiwi 3y ago
      My civility seems to be struggling today, thanks for pointing this out!

jszymborski 3y ago

I'm sorry, but I'm really not seeing anything here you can't get from a quick web search. LLMs are not a panacea, and there's no way for them to mainline a Comparative Cultures class into you in 5 minutes. There really is no shortcut to compassion and understanding... so much of it is simply taking the time to inform yourself. You can get an LLM to summarize a wiki page on some culture's customs, but there is better content written, edited, and curated by humans on the topic.

yamazakiwi 3y ago
No one is claiming what you're arguing against. We're simply saying that AI can give you more cultural understanding through deep diving into language. Not that opening chatgpt makes you understand everything about a culture or a group of people. No one here was saying LLM's are a panacea for cultural misunderstanding and it's bizarre you think anyone on HN would believe that. You've created an imaginary argument for the sake of positing your opinion. You did however bring up willingness, which is an important consideration.
- jszymborski 3y ago
  > You've created an imaginary argument for the sake of positing your opinion. You did however bring up willingness, which is an important consideration. This is getting rather pointed and I ask you to consider whether it's just to be questioning my motives for posting. It's clear you think I've not addressed your argument, the civil thing is to attribute that to a perceived misunderstanding and not some desire to speak past you with my own opinion.
  - yamazakiwi 3y ago
    My civility seems to be struggling today, thanks for pointing this out!