Google destroys the tower of Babylon, and this is good and bad at the same time

IN Genesis 11 An extraordinary story about how Chaos said, who captured the world. This is myth about Tower of BabylonWhat explains the origin of various human languages. According to history, in ancient times, all of humanity spoke one language and decided to build a tower on the plain Sinar This will achieve the sky as a symbol of his unity and greatness.

Nevertheless, God considered this act an excess of pride and decided to punish the builders. To do this, he confused their tongues, forcing each group to speak in the same way that prevented them from communicating and continuing to work. As a result, people scattered throughout the Earth, causing various languages ​​and culture.

This legendary text of the Bible is perhaps the greatest mystery that humanity tried to practically decide in subsequent years, how to find a way of communication and transmitting these different languages. And the Internet epoch began to greatly facilitate the task for this, thanks to the famous online translators and a series of tools for converting the language in real time.

But Google Today put forward a solution that is already visible as final, at least in distant communication: with the help of AI, a translation into real, impeccable time, with the same vocal tones and feelings of phrases and without the need to sweat, so that your foreign interlocutor understands you.

Google Meet wants to knock down an idiomatic barrier

Google I/O 2025 was an ideal script to tell how from Google Meet, you can begin to destroy the language barrier.

The new function translates your words, uttered with your listener’s favorite language almost in real time, with a low delay and preservation of voice, tone and expression. The result is a conversation that seems genuine and natural, even in all languages, “regardless of whether they are grandchildren who speak English without difficulty with their grandparents who speak of Spanish or global colleagues who are connected through continents.”

To date, the voice translation in Google Meet will begin to implement for subscribers to Google Ai Pro and Ultra in beta versions, initially in English and Spanish, as well as in more than languages ​​in the coming weeks, also promising that WorkSpace plans will have this built -in tools for future meetings.

This is good?

Undoubtedly, services such as Duolingo will have to rethink their goals after this ad, because the motivation for learning a foreign language is reduced if we think how all generative tools facilitate as a task in order to communicate in other languages.

Now this is the same thing as many services criticize that “facilitate” life and everyday life. For example, this happens with WAZE, which, according to many convinced enemies of the platform, delayed our ability to sovereign location, spatiality and movement.

The same can be said about how he affects world education, “helping” students and teachers to simplify their work.

In the case of the language, there is an important exception and, perhaps, that these tools will not be able to assimilate so quickly: the cultural factor, idioms and expressions with multiple values ​​that only the carrier can know and interpret what humanity and the surprise of the speech, which, finally, is that which can impose.

Therefore, it is difficult to think that the platform will help you walk along the streets of Japan with complete naturalness in communication that you will need in this country, but at least it will help you protect yourself with a large number of tools and faster than walking with a dictionary in your hand.

What is represented by Google 20 in May can be the first step for more change in the future with respect to how we communicate, however, since many technological functions will be privileges out of several, which for a while increases the differences. The path to its complete democratization will still be slow, but when it is already established, it can marked the beginning of the fall of the vibe tower.