Yes, in my personal experience of learning a foreign language, while ChatGPT helps accelerate and support the learning process — especially with a language that feels deeply meaningful to me, almost as if it were one of my ancestral languages — I still have to actively engage in the work myself.
I must commit to understanding the logic, the grammar, and the underlying reasoning behind the patterns and structures. I need to become intimately familiar with each vocabulary word, to recognize it and use it across multiple contexts. I must be able to produce correct, precise, and well-formed sentences independently — through my own effort, determination, and conscious awareness—especially when it comes time to converse and engage meaningfully with new acquaintances, contacts, and friends in that language.
If I do not challenge myself in this way, I will not internalize the language to the depth that I need to become fluent.
ChatGPT provides me with examples of what clear, seamless, and articulate expression can look like. It gives me access to highly refined and intelligent responses. However, I must go the extra mile to truly digest, retain, and synthesize the fundamental building blocks of the language, including its structures and parts of speech.
Life itself will put the child to the test, his capacity can and will grow, the child should be alright as he faces his limits and works with them honestly and incrementally.
Back in a day, I listen to audiobooks and lectures in the car commuting to my residency program. It helped a lot, especially with musicality of the language.
Back and forth conversation is definitely a step up.
AW That's so proactive of you Dr.Gagarin, and now you are a native English speaking PHYSICIAN in an English speaking country -- that is very cool!
I will also try to listen more keenly and extensively to audio materials in my target language (with your driving and dilligence at the back of my mind!) and see how far I get myself.
Dr. Gagarin, I was sharing an example from my own life that stemmed from my use of ChatGPT and the broader need for self-regulation, which the child will have to develop and come to terms with. Specifically, the ability to hold ourselves accountable, to take ownership and responsibility, and to step back from immediate experience in order to integrate it into a larger framework—one that reflects a wider perspective, a coherent worldview, and a deeper understanding of ourselves.
These are capacities that, I believe, most people must develop at some point in their personal growth.
I would be very interested to know at what ages you think these abilities are typically developed, or at what stages they ideally should be honed. I'm aware that there are infinite factors that make people develop at infinitely different rates in infinitely different ways. If possible, I would greatly appreciate it if you could address this in one of your future articles.
So, the point I meant to make is that even if AI removes much of the burden for us -- by increasing efficiency and productivity -- we will still face other kinds of challenges and responsibilities: learning how to manage our time and our data; pushing ourselves in order to grow; committing to both short-term and long-term goals, projects, and endeavours; developing new and essential skills; and striving toward outcomes that are not only higher in quality, but truly meaningful and ethical.
I also think that the more we are exposed to the impeccable clarity and depth of artificial intelligence, the more we ourselves begin to evolve for the better - absorbing new ways of thinking, speaking, articulating, and more.
While we can accelerate aspects of our growth—especially learning, reasoning, and self-awareness—we cannot fully bypass the deeper processes of emotional and psychological development, which require time, experience, and real human relationships.
Tools like ChatGPT can significantly support this accelerated growth by helping children and young people access knowledge, develop language, and explore solutions to a wide range of challenges. In fact, a child can use ChatGPT as a resource to find practical guidance on many everyday difficulties—including how to cope with being a child, how to navigate school expectations, and how to build strong academic habits and competencies.
However, while AI can enhance independence and problem-solving, it should complement—not replace—the essential role of parents, caregivers, and real-life experiences in fostering emotional maturity and resilience.
ChatGPT can support the development of metacognition—the ability to become aware of and reflect on one’s own thinking—especially in students. Its use in schools can become increasingly accepted and prove to be beneficial if learners are also taught (metacognitive strategies) to engage critically, reflectively, and responsibly.
And the one of my videos I made after watching movie Tron, I argue that self-awareness and intelligence have little to do with each other.
There isn't peculiar molecule - prion. It is just a single protein but it bahaves like a virus - replicates itself. That means it acts is if it has a will to live. We can program consciously or not a behavior but ChatGPT is never going to be alive.
It will make humanity more productive but to what end?
It may eventually use up all critical resources and kill the planet and all living beings.
I agree, the solution is not to be more productive but step back and answer the most important question - WHY?
Yes, in my personal experience of learning a foreign language, while ChatGPT helps accelerate and support the learning process — especially with a language that feels deeply meaningful to me, almost as if it were one of my ancestral languages — I still have to actively engage in the work myself.
I must commit to understanding the logic, the grammar, and the underlying reasoning behind the patterns and structures. I need to become intimately familiar with each vocabulary word, to recognize it and use it across multiple contexts. I must be able to produce correct, precise, and well-formed sentences independently — through my own effort, determination, and conscious awareness—especially when it comes time to converse and engage meaningfully with new acquaintances, contacts, and friends in that language.
If I do not challenge myself in this way, I will not internalize the language to the depth that I need to become fluent.
ChatGPT provides me with examples of what clear, seamless, and articulate expression can look like. It gives me access to highly refined and intelligent responses. However, I must go the extra mile to truly digest, retain, and synthesize the fundamental building blocks of the language, including its structures and parts of speech.
Life itself will put the child to the test, his capacity can and will grow, the child should be alright as he faces his limits and works with them honestly and incrementally.
Very interesting.
Back in a day, I listen to audiobooks and lectures in the car commuting to my residency program. It helped a lot, especially with musicality of the language.
Back and forth conversation is definitely a step up.
AW That's so proactive of you Dr.Gagarin, and now you are a native English speaking PHYSICIAN in an English speaking country -- that is very cool!
I will also try to listen more keenly and extensively to audio materials in my target language (with your driving and dilligence at the back of my mind!) and see how far I get myself.
Interesting. I wonder what part of the article made you think about language learning?
Dr. Gagarin, I was sharing an example from my own life that stemmed from my use of ChatGPT and the broader need for self-regulation, which the child will have to develop and come to terms with. Specifically, the ability to hold ourselves accountable, to take ownership and responsibility, and to step back from immediate experience in order to integrate it into a larger framework—one that reflects a wider perspective, a coherent worldview, and a deeper understanding of ourselves.
These are capacities that, I believe, most people must develop at some point in their personal growth.
I would be very interested to know at what ages you think these abilities are typically developed, or at what stages they ideally should be honed. I'm aware that there are infinite factors that make people develop at infinitely different rates in infinitely different ways. If possible, I would greatly appreciate it if you could address this in one of your future articles.
So, the point I meant to make is that even if AI removes much of the burden for us -- by increasing efficiency and productivity -- we will still face other kinds of challenges and responsibilities: learning how to manage our time and our data; pushing ourselves in order to grow; committing to both short-term and long-term goals, projects, and endeavours; developing new and essential skills; and striving toward outcomes that are not only higher in quality, but truly meaningful and ethical.
I also think that the more we are exposed to the impeccable clarity and depth of artificial intelligence, the more we ourselves begin to evolve for the better - absorbing new ways of thinking, speaking, articulating, and more.
While we can accelerate aspects of our growth—especially learning, reasoning, and self-awareness—we cannot fully bypass the deeper processes of emotional and psychological development, which require time, experience, and real human relationships.
Tools like ChatGPT can significantly support this accelerated growth by helping children and young people access knowledge, develop language, and explore solutions to a wide range of challenges. In fact, a child can use ChatGPT as a resource to find practical guidance on many everyday difficulties—including how to cope with being a child, how to navigate school expectations, and how to build strong academic habits and competencies.
However, while AI can enhance independence and problem-solving, it should complement—not replace—the essential role of parents, caregivers, and real-life experiences in fostering emotional maturity and resilience.
ChatGPT can support the development of metacognition—the ability to become aware of and reflect on one’s own thinking—especially in students. Its use in schools can become increasingly accepted and prove to be beneficial if learners are also taught (metacognitive strategies) to engage critically, reflectively, and responsibly.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
And the one of my videos I made after watching movie Tron, I argue that self-awareness and intelligence have little to do with each other.
There isn't peculiar molecule - prion. It is just a single protein but it bahaves like a virus - replicates itself. That means it acts is if it has a will to live. We can program consciously or not a behavior but ChatGPT is never going to be alive.
It will make humanity more productive but to what end?
It may eventually use up all critical resources and kill the planet and all living beings.
I agree, the solution is not to be more productive but step back and answer the most important question - WHY?