While the success of the internet as a global town square is dubious at best with its pervasive misinformation and polarization, one area in which it is unquestionably beneficial is in language learning. I’ve made wonderful progress learning Greek in three years, with vast internet learning resources, online literature and newspapers, and virtual in-person lessons with native speakers. Given that a language-processing AI like ChatGPT can be trained on open source text available online and is increasingly trained on multiple languages, its use for linguistic and literary information gathering should be seen as promising. I’ve been reading the paper “Language […]