A Facebook post about your trip to Peru. An Amazon review of a new toaster oven. An email to the super about the inflatable reindeer blocking the hallway. You phrase and rephrase things all day without thinking that anyone—or anything—is putting words in your mouth. But what happens when AI joins the conversation? Are chatbots changing the way you write, talk and interact with others?

“Dame una lista de 200 palabras en tu’un savi”, pide Baldemar López a una Inteligencia Artificial (IA). Al inicio funciona. Después, el sistema comienza a repetir los mismos términos. “Nada tienen que

A picture of WMZA chapter members along the CEO of the Wikimedia foundation Bernadette Meehan The instruction was simple, and Matete Lesele had given it many times. Choose an article on the English…

Live AI translation tools are making it easier to converse across languages without a human translator, a phrasebook, or years of study. So will we all just stop taking Spanish or Mandarin classes? Sociolinguist Abby Walker doesn’t think so. She shares the many reasons we learn new languages, some of which have little to do with functional communication at all. We also hear how one AI-assisted conversation brought two future in-laws together, why machine translation is still so darn buggy, and w

Wikimedia Bandung Community, Hayati Mayang Arum, CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons In our daily life, there are things we do not notice while they are still around us. A mother tongue can be one o…