> If I told you I have a person who speaks perfect English but frequently lies and outright makes things up, you'd say that's a politician and not to be trusted

> If I told you I have a person who speaks perfect English but frequently lies and outright makes things up, you'd say that's a politician and not to be trusted. But if I say I have a computer with those same properties, suddenly it's the most amazing thing in the world, and we should implicitly trust it to make our decisions and educate our children. Because a computer is a tool and a politician deems you a tool. Anyway machine learning will change the way languages are taught. It did change how people learn games like Chess and Go. Having a conversation (with voice-to-text) with a bot in your second/third language will be an important part of language acquisition. It's honestly hard to imagine how it's not the case for me.