Doubt it. When you learn a language you learn a lot more than the translation, you learn thinking and connotations that require a broader understanding that never get captured regardless of the translation quality, because they require knowing history and seeing previous uses in context that can't be captured in the translation.
"Good" translation will do for language what wikipedia has done for knowledge. Everyone will get a superficial understanding, some will pretend that reading off a definitions is the same as actually knowing something, and the world will get a lot more shallow, empty conversations.
In some languages, DeepL has near perfect translation to the point you cannot really tell if it was translated.
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preposterous. having an indepth discussion with a foreigner requires not only the language but also the understanding of the cultural context.
To put it another way, in 10 years when I visit China I could probably have an in-depth conversation without ever knowing Chinese.
I’d the Chinese can come to a university and never need to learn English, they won’t. Your parents and community will teach out to speak and that’ll be the end of it.
It’ll be closer to the Tower of Babel scenario. Every community will have their own language and dialect and the AI will just adapt. If a solar flare takes out electronics we won’t be able to understand each other.
Alternatively, the AI will teach us to speak or an implant will teach us similar to the matrix.
Those are the scenarios in the next 25-30 years I see.