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idiotsecantyesterday at 2:12 PM1 replyview on HN

I think it's very likely that machine intelligence will influence human language. It already is influencing the grammar and patterns we use.


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runarbergyesterday at 4:34 PM

I think such influence will be extremely minimal, like confined to dozens of new nouns and verbs, but no real change in grammar, etc.

Interactions between humans and computers in natural language for your average person is much much less then the interactions between that same person and their dog. Humans also speak in natural language to their dogs, they simplify their speech, use extreme intonation and emphasis, in a way we never do with each other. Yet, despite having been with dogs for 10,000+ years, it has not significantly affected our language (other then giving us new words).

EDIT: just found out HN annoyingly transforms U+202F (NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE), the ISO 80000-1 preferred way to type thousand separator

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