a limited amount, eg when i walked by the news stand i could try to read the headlines on the newspapers, or read the menu at a restuarant, that was about it. some languages are very hard to hear. but it's fun to use, that's the big difference. i have used other apps and they're tedious and boring. an app doesn't work at all if you don't use it
as someone else said, these concerns have existed before and amounted to nothing, so those of us who have aged are not easily agitated. in science a deep understanding of a method is only realised if you write the code to implement it. many mediocre scientists will turn to ai tools and make many mistakes because they cannot validate