I don't think you're far fetched in that idea at all. The way many of the AI sites respond to answers, I see that here on reddit a lot. The same with posts.

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So much of the confusion in this debate comes down to philosophical terminology. Like "general" intelligence. What would we consider "general intelligence"? Symbolic reasoning? BTW we don't need right/wrong answers in the form of a labeled datasets to train an AI. ChatGPT doesn't even use that, it is self-supervised. For more generic "intelligence" look into self-supervised learning in RL environments. ML models can also be trained by "survival of the fittest", genetic/evolutionary algorithms are being researched as an alternative to the SOTA gradient based methods.

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https://www.uber.com/blog/deep-neuroevolution

It depends on why you want to learn a language. If you need to just for working a certain job then yeah we can remove the need for some jobs to require you to learn a 2nd language, but if you want to go market your business globally or live in another country and really get a long with people you probably don't want to rely on just a translator. It would still be very useful, but showing off you can learn a language or play an instrument kind of builds confidence in you that using a translator doesn't, so there will be value to that probably forever.. also sports.. as silly as they are ;)

It's kind of like all humans are in a constant show off contest and that won't ever change much, so some of those benefits will always be marketable and thus in some level of demand.

Imagine discovering that 90% of Reddit (posts, users, comments) was ai and you've spent months thinking you're part of a community of humans only to find out you've been alone all along...

I learned a lot about English when studying French in college. Like a lot of English I "learned" by hearing other people and conversing growing up, but when I learned about the rules in French it made me think a lot about those same rules in English.

But ....Esperanto!

I have no mouth and I must scream

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You act as if companies care about the longevity of their workers and wont take any opportunity to screw them over at the behest of their shareholders

There's a difference between wanting to do it, and needing to do it. Yes some people will want to. Will a computer effectively translate when speaking to someone so you don't have to you if you don't want to? That would be great.

it wouldn't have a conscience, so bad men would make it do bad things without consequence

Just buy old stuff. Old tools, old cars, it all has higher build quality. They literally have computer programs so they can design car parts to fail after a certain amount of heat cycles and miles. I'm balls deep in replacing a 2012 wrangler oil filter housing/ oil cooler assembly and I realize how much more put together my 88-98 chevy is

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If you speak English, we are probably there. The world is rapidly adopting English to the point where it is becoming the universal second language.

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Good luck with that. People are already struggling. You think these employers can just cut wages? There's a certain point that you can, and then there's a point where you risk destabilizing the entire economy.

What happens if every employer decides to cut wages? Are you expecting no fallout? Right now with most people not being able to afford rent and food, any reduction on wages would be faced with a backlash not ever seen in this country.

A lot of people who say these things fail to realize that when robots replace the workers, who's going to buy the products? When nobody has a job anymore except the employers, where's your revenue coming from?

I hate to sound like a Luddite, but learning languages doesn't strike me as something people should ever want to stop learning. Language learning usually provides more benefits than just communication with others - you learn cultural context, different ways of seeing things, etc. Certainly, a universal translator would really come in handy, but even with the most effective and convenient translators out there, people would still want to learn other languages.

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There will be no need to prompt engineer very soon

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>In my experience, too, ChatGPT has been like a total godsend for learning.

I think you'd like this approach:

https://www.businessinsider.com/wharton-mba-professor-requires-students-to-use-chatgpt-ai-cheating-2023-1?op=1