Hey everyone!
I’m new to this community but I thought this might be the right place to post this. I’ve built a tool for my own language learning, inspired by ChatGPT.
Here’s the link: [https://language-chat.vercel.app/](https://language-chat.vercel.app/)
It’s basically like Tandem only that you’re chatting with AI. Therefore it’s instant and there’s no matchmaking going on.
What I plan in the future:
* give grammar and spelling advice for each message sent
* add more languages and characters
* retain more context on longer conversations
* Fine-tune the AI so that it’s a bit more inquisitive
It’s a lot of fun to use, still super rough around the edges (some answers are weird, it currently doesn’t retain much context and there seems to be some issue after logging in where it needs a refresh), but I thought I’d share this to get some feedback on it. Here’s a [screenshot](https://preview.redd.it/agag57lfufea1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=23c81e9863c6ce9b8af31e6118aec14fbdb830e1) so you can get a glimpse of what you’re getting into 🙂
Using AI is super expensive right now (I just pass through OpenAIs pricing) so you might run into my hard billing limits. There may be an option to switch to an open source model but I want to find out whether it’s worth pursuing first 🙂
Hope you like it and love to hear your thoughts!
Tim
(this has been cross-posted from r/Japanese due to a friendly suggestions of one of the users there!)
2 comments
I feel like I’m going to get permanent brain damage from all this banging my head against a wall.
ChatGPT is a shit Japanese companion. I’m willing to bet money that basically any AI companion is going to be the same.
And they’re very good at spouting convincing bullshit, so I consider resources that use them to be *actively dangerous* to the language ability of people who rely on it.
Meanwhile, stuff like Hellotalk also exist, are free, and use actual live people instead of bots. Are they shit? Sure, but that’s not the point. The point is that even *that* is better than using ChatGPT from everything we’ve seen so far.
edit: oh yes, the screenshot. The AI at least successfully managed to…say yes to the speakers questions and repeat what was said with zero input of their own.
And they didn’t even do that right.
* A: ‘Do you like tea?’
* B: ‘Yes, I drink tea as well!’
Mate, I asked if you *liked* it. I can drink medicine, but I don’t do it with a smile.
I’m working on the exact same idea, but open source.