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Language influences how we see the world. How we see the world influences our language.Inventing new and alien languages is a hobby that’s been alive for ages, and now, with sci-fi and fantasy shows and movies, it’s a career for some people. More than that, it requires the ability to think outside the box and to challenge sets of rules that we take for granted.Today, at the very end of 2022, Can an AI invent a new language?A few months ago I interviewed David Peterson, who creates languages for a living, including for Game of Thrones, Defiance, Dominion, The 100, Penny Dreadful, The Shannara Chronicles, and more. Our conversation went pretty deep (posted at the bottom of the article), so I believed I knew some of what it took to create a new language when I asked ChatGPT to create an alien...