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Let me clarify: I have not seen ChatGPT make any grammatical mistakes in its use of Japanese in continuous Japanese-only text. Like you, I have seen it make mistakes in explanations of grammar, both about Japanese and about English, as
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Or politicians’ speechwriters! Inspired by your comment, I tried three versions of a moderately long prompt beginning with “Write a five paragraph speech by an American politician at the opening ceremony of a new bridge [sewage treatment pl
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What is your impression of ChatGPT’s responses in French compared to its responses in English? While I haven’t noticed any grammatical mistakes in its Japanese, its Japanese responses seem less lucid and more repetitive than its English. It
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That doesn’t sound trite to me at all. ChatGTP raises major issues for the future of education in many areas, and discussions about how to deal with them have just begun.
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I find it amusing that, at present, ChatGPT seems to be lousy at mathematical-type reasoning while being very good at natural language use. That is the opposite of what many people, including me, have come to expect of computers. I have wor
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Interesting article. I learned a lot. A old book that I keep returning to is An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China by George Staunton, published in 1797 [1, 2, 3]. In the eyes of someone
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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
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I have also lived in Japan for almost all of my adult life (age twenty-six to my current sixty-five), and the recommendations on the linked page all look good to me—better than any that I would be able to give. He has obviously travelled mo
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In one of the first tests I did with ChatGPT yesterday, I played the role of a person asking for travel advice. Here is one of the exchanges (italics added): Me: London and New York sound good, because people speak English there. I’ve heard
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I’ve been experimenting with ChatGPT in another educational context: short essays that high school and college students often have to write for class. ChatGPT excels. I am putting my test results on the following page: https://ww
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Using ChatGPT to Cheat in Class(gally.net)
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Like many people, it seems, I have been playing with ChatGPT since yesterday. I wanted to see whether it can be used by high school and university students to cheat in writing classes, and it sure looks like it can. See Tests 3 through 9 he
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I did a couple of more tests, one in English and one in Japanese, asking for advice about foreign travel from the point of view of a college-age person. The responses were very good in both cases, but the Japanese was more repetitive and a
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I’ve been living in Tokyo and Yokohama since 1983, and I have seen rats a handful of times in Tokyo: once in a subway station, walking along the tracks; a couple of times in Shibuya in the early morning, picking through garbage; once or twi
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I asked ChatGPT for advice about how to learn a foreign language. (I teach and do research in the field.) In two tests, the responses were perfect. Here’s a video in which I narrate the second test: https://www.youtube.com/w
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The linked article focuses on the physical features of Tokyo. For me, even more attractive is the economic dynamism that they enable. I moved to Tokyo in 1983 and have lived there and in nearby Yokohama ever since. Until 2005, I worked as a
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That was my thought, too. I got all the easy ones correct, but only because I chose answers that looked familiar from using an iPhone, not, in many cases, because they were objectively better.
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I’m helping to raise my grandson, who will turn three next month. I read only digital books myself, but neither my daughter nor I have any intention of exposing him to digital books any time soon. He loves having stories read to him from ph
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How about explaining the situation to your manager and proposing a discussion among your manager and all the members of your team to agree on some guidelines for language use within the team? In my experience in multilingual situations, peo
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If you or your children want to start learning how to play the piano, I would suggest starting with a decent electronic piano. As others have noted here, while they still don’t have all the nuance, warmth, or personality of great acoustic p
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I’ve been living in Tokyo and Yokohama since 1983 and am as much of a Tokyo fan as they get, and I readily acknowledge how ugly Japanese cities are in general. But after buying a house here twenty-three years ago, and comparing my experienc
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It happened to me, too, about twelve hours ago. I had just sent a request to follow a musician’s private account, something I’ve never done before. I then received a notice that my account had been permanently suspended for violating commun
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I posted a few of the photographs I took in Shibuya, Tokyo, seven years ago on my website: https://www.gally.net/halloweeninshibuya/index.html
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Six or seven years ago, I happened to get caught up in an extremely tight Halloween crowd in Tokyo. I had finished work around seven p.m., and I decided to walk home through Shibuya to check out the people and costumes. (I'm in my sixt
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The American writer Calvin Trillin wrote a short story called “A Christmas Shopping Tale” about how this kind of gift-giving might not always be welcome. It appears in his book Too Soon to Tell (1995). Excerpts: “There was once a man name
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Your Japanese coworkers are the exception, not the rule. The vast majority of Japanese speakers in Japan, including those in technical fields, do all of their work communication in Japanese. They may use technical vocabulary borrowed from E
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Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20221021173646/https://www.nytim... Excerpt: “Analysts I spoke to said the rules will devastate China’s domestic chip industry, potentially setting it back d
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The Internet Archive’s launch event of the Democracy’s Library project is being streamed on YouTube [1]. The collection itself is at [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQDvS8RBgwg [2] https://archive.org&#x
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That may be true. But a third-party site might also go out of business, throw up a paywall unexpectedly, or decided for some reason that what you wrote is not appropriate for the site and take it down.
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I agree. I get a positive impression from articles on self-produced websites with personal domains. They show that the author has put some thought, effort, and money into the presentation and preservation of their writing. Creating such sit

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