Do we still need language teachers in the age of AI?

人工智能时代,我们是否仍需语言教师?

Learn Languages with Steve Kaufmann

2025-11-28

16 分钟
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In this video, I discuss the possibilities and limitations of AI for language learning.
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  • Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.

  • So today we're going to talk about AI again and it's kind of like an AI experiment

  • because I've pushed a bunch of information into my brain and I'm going to try to produce some thoughts based on what I've been reading and maybe refer you to some of the links that I use to learn more about the subject.

  • AI, it's like every month it's developing further.

  • There's more and more YouTube videos and articles on the internet debating the possibilities and the limitations of AI and they vary from the most dramatic predictions of everybody's gonna be out of work to is probably not such a big deal or it's gonna collapse

  • because it's just a great big bubble.

  • So I want to start today with a book that I found on the internet.

  • written by two Frenchmen actually, including Laurent Alexandre, who I came across him via YouTube,

  • which again, using AI suggests all kinds of things to you based on what you're interested in.

  • And he very dramatically says in his book, we needn't bother going to university anymore.

  • He states that you know,

  • diagnosis by a chat GPT is four times more accurate than diagnosis by well-trained doctors.

  • So why waste time?

  • 10 years in France getting a medical degree.

  • Now of course with AI, with chat GPT,

  • I can do some research and find out

  • if in fact there is evidence that diagnosis by a chat GPT is four times more accurate and it seems that may be a little bit of a hype.

  • So one of the aspects of The world we live in today is that we are inundated with hype,

  • with outright falsehoods, with exaggerations,

  • because in today's sort of information and media environment,