Sufficiently good AI translation will decrease the need for… - Paul Graham

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Sufficiently good AI translation will decrease the need for people to speak English as a second language. But interestingly the decrease will vary depending on the type of work people do. In person conversations will need lingua francas for longer.

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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

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