I object to a few of the assertions made by maths folk in the article- 1st being that Google Translate taught us nothing about linguistics. If you use google translate you learn less about linguistics than if you had to experience learning the languages first hand, maybe, but you can learn form just that output if you are determined to, ad, more importantly, the folks who built it and are still building it are still learning a huge amount about linguistics.

What are the relationships between many languages that become apparent, including code as a language that were not obvious before llms? Translation is fairly solved. The study of how and why languages, not at all.