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In the morning, I moved some money from my checking account into stocks, just in case this turned out to be big. My expectations were deflated by the emphasis on traditional, low-tech language acquisition. Musk’s micro-school, Ad Astra, has skipped teaching foreign languages since ~2014 in anticipation of immediate, real-time computer-aided translation. Here in 2025, Yann Dubois vibecodes an app to help his partner learn French. This ‘sent me’; the theme is evergreen. Where’s the spaced repetition? OK, I appreciate this as a vehicle to show off GPT-5’s webdev. But it’s not over yet. Next it’s over to Ruochen Wang, who is learning Korean (I am curious why). We hear Advanced Voice Mode generate a Korean phrase, speak it slowly, then quickly. Again, I get that this is basically a vehicle to show off multimodal capabilities. But anglophone AI researchers still learning foreign languages, in a way that looks remotely like this, makes me feel pretty far from ‘transformative AI’. Here’s somet

AI / ML GPT-5 Livestream Notes Low-tech language acquisition Lydia Nottingham Aug 08, 2025 8 Share In the morning, I moved some money from my checking account into stocks, just in case this turned out to be big. My expectations were deflated by the emphasis on traditional, low-tech language acquisition. Musk’s micro-school, Ad Astra, has skipped teaching foreign languages since ~2014 in anticipation of immediate, real-time computer-aided translation. Here in 2025, Yann Dubois vibecodes an app to help his partner learn French. This ‘sent me’; the theme is evergreen. Where’s the spaced repetitio

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