{"id":349,"date":"2025-08-08T16:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/russiantranslators.org\/?p=349"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:28:06","slug":"how-is-ai-affecting-language-and-human-ability-to-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russiantranslators.org\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"How is AI Affecting Language and Human Ability to Connect?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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How is AI affecting language? “To reduce language to information is to flatten out the miracle of understanding.”<\/em> \u2014 George Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation<\/em> (1975)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Steiner, the translator and poet, argues that understanding is irreducible to data. What is understanding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like food is not reducible to its constituent elements, so Language is not reducible to information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we break food into its constituent elements and then reassemble them like pieces of a puzzle, we will not get true food \u2013 we will get a simulation of food that doesn\u2019t nourish. Real food that nourishes is whole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we break language into its constituent elements, and then reassemble them like pieces of a puzzle, we will not get true Language \u2013 we will get a simulation of Language that doesn\u2019t connect. True Language that connects is always whole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get whole food, we must receive it as it grows from the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get whole Language, we must receive it as it proceeds from the mouth of a human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we keep eating broken, synthetic food for too long, we will be malnourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we keep using broken, synthetic Language for too long, we will be \u201cmalconnected\u201d \u2013 alone, alienated, isolated, depressed.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Tolkien said through the mouth of Gandalf:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.\u201d The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humanity has been experimenting with broken, synthetic foods for over a century, only to find out that this \u201cfood\u201d kills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humanity has just started experimenting with broken, synthetic language, and it will find out that it \u201cdisconnects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humanity is slowly awakening to the miracle of \u201cwhole foods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s hope it will awaken to the miracle of \u201cWhole Language.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s connect<\/a> and create something REAL!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Connect Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How is AI affecting language? “To reduce language to information is to flatten out the miracle of understanding.” \u2014 George Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (1975) George Steiner, the translator and poet, argues that understanding is irreducible to data. What is understanding? Just like food is not reducible to its constituent elements, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15,8],"tags":[9,17,13],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-language","category-thoughts-about-ai","tag-language","tag-love-of-language","tag-translation-as-art","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t