[yladiz]

Yes I have traveled to places where I don’t speak the language, need to get an Uber at a specific place, and need to read the signs. You can get surprisingly far if you know a few words in the local language, and in your hypothetical future, even if you and the driver have an agent, what are you going to do if you need to communicate with someone in person that’s not that driver? Ask your agent to? I don’t see how that’s a feasible idea.

[lxgr]

Why not? People are already holding their phone running Google Translate up to strangers to communicate with them.

[yladiz]

In part because communication is not just language.

[lxgr]

Isn’t that a good argument for needing a more capable model for assisting in it then?

[yladiz]

Not really. You can't really train a model to perform body language.