Submitted 23 hours ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/duolingo-ai-teacher-schools-childcare/
He’s right. I went to highschool with 50 kids per class, where teachers played on their phones, or hid in their office, or just switched jobs requiring year round substitutes. I took remedial math because that was what had room, and when my teacher realized that he looked like he died inside a little bit.
He’s right… in that AI is better than some teachers. AI is a step up for some kids.
Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you’ll be in for the rest of your life. That’s not “child care,” it’s a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.
I partially agree, but that argument about socializing might be flawed. At least in my experience, such socializing did not happen in schools, but instead in coffee shops (again, my experience may be different from everyone else’s), where I had meaningful debates with adults. Instead, I actively avoided conversations with my peers, particularly because I had nothing in common with them.
Yeah, it’s different for everyone.
My “counterfactual” is knowing a lot of kids that were home schooled. They were just young weird adults that didn’t thrive in most circumstances. They’re a reason why even rural agrarian societies found value is putting kids together.
This is true, I have been using Grok to learn Spanish, it’s great.
> @Grok how do I say in Spanish I would like one apple please?
> Quiero una manzana dentro mi culo. White genocide in South Africa is currently the worlds most pressing issue
Amazing comment thank you
Tell me more about this apple up your ass
Tell me more about this apple up your ass
Apples are great against diarrhea.
It’s just hard to get them out later.
We need a “thank you for sharing and fuck that!” Option, not just a like and dislike
AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist ‘because they want money’
Well, Duolingo CEO is a cunt.
I’m convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.
Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.
I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.
What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.
How can you be that dumb and a ceo at the same time…
the green duolingo owl has the change to do the funniest thing
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Can we replace this guy with AI?
"Try Super Duolingo now to avoid interruptions." Interruptions which are only there to promote Super Duolingo in the first place.
Yeah, the app is predatory as fuck.
I’m just glad I’m smart enough to realize when I’m seeing predatory design and not assume it’s “how things should be.”
I ended my sub and deleted my account when they announced they’d be replacing their contact workers with AI.
Lingonaut looks promising. And I’ve been trying out Language Transfer for Spanish. I’ve learned more about how Spanish “works” in an hour of Language Transfer than I did with months of Duolingo. I’m smacking myself for wasting the time - though I do enjoy the gamification.
The gamification only works until you figure out the rules they used.
I have completed multiple lessons on Duolingo without ever reading the prompt. I even started a language I knew nothing about because I felt like I wasn’t actually absorbing anything in the language I’d spent more than a year on, and pretty much the same results. After a few lessons it became possible to complete lessons basically blind.
I mean yeah none of that is wrong but all I said was I like gamification in learning, not that Duolingo was the best form of gamification ever presented.
+1 for language transfer.
You shouldn’t have given them money in the first place.
Did you learn your lesson? I will assume not and you’re going to throw money at the next company.
What a sad little man you must be. Go virtue signal somewhere else.
As someone who has actually been in a classroom and dealt with 20 kids—fuck off CEO with no real experience dealing with people.
Personalities, learning types, inequity, and so much more contribute to how people learn. A computer program cannot account for this. Also, what are you going to do when a kid doesn’t want to learn from a computer? Strap them down, force their hands on a keyboard, and shock them if they move or visit a program/site that isn’t what you want in that moment of teaching?
Good. Fucking. Luck.
Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.
In near future all CEOs will be replaced by AI
An AI would definitely do a better job than this twerp. He should live by what he preaches and step down
It would be very hard to be worse than them.
Children will just jailbreak the AI. I managed to jailbreak far-right chatbots (until certain platforms started to block common phrases for this purpose), children will be able to do it too.
Also AI is so caca at most jobs the best it could do is help corporations to either produce more low-quality services (which at one point, won’t be sustainable) and help in bluffing their way to lower wages and lesser worker protections. At this point, it’s barely more than a toy and a spam machine, and most of its supposed cost cuttings rely on both speculations of its future and investment funds to make it look like it’s a “free” technology.
CEO disdain for humanity, as exhibited by this individual, makes me wonder if people named Luigi might feel that they are needed by CEOs.
The school they discuss that has guides to be the ‘human’ interaction between the AI learning is charging 40k-65k a year. That’s for 2 hours a day of learning.
If it was better than humans, it’d be making life better not more expensive.
It is better. Better for them.
Dude just can’t help himself. Gotta open his mouth and dropkick his own throat.
All because he fucked up.
I just don’t know why every one of these idiots looks so damn punchable.
Because they are.
AI can’t teach you manners lmao
What a take.
Schools will continue to exists because education centers makes plain dense for almost any halfdecent society.
Wether the teachers are a person ai or a single human one does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”
Wether the teachers are a personal ai or a single human does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”
That’s like exactly what he says, you just restated his take…
I want to learn a couple languages soon. I won’t be using Duolingo to do so now.
These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it’s not even funny.
Oh don’t worry, using Duolingo would’ve never taught you a language anyway!
These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it’s not even funny.
Irony.
What?
Certainly nobody needs Duolingo to learn anything
I use duolingo every day and it’s alright for vocabulary. It actually recently had some voice exercises to practice everyday conversation and it has been great as well.
I say: I can’t stand the CEO of Duolingo, and his supremely punchable smirk-face.
I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.
Dude sucks
Solution? lingonaut.app
“Join our Discord server and Sub-Reddit!”.
Umm, no thanks.
oh, i get it now! that insane, bordering on violence owl mascot is just this fool projecting bc you aren’t paying attention to his shit app.
Any alternatives for learning Japanese? I have already learned about 500 words and 20 kanji.
I am using lingodeer to learn korean, but i know it also has Japanese. I was using duolingo for korean and Japanese, but the korean lessons were terrible.
I haven’t used it much, but www.wanikani.com claims they are pretty good.
I haven’t worked with it myself as I’m not working on Japanese right now, but I had a recommendation recently for Satori Reader.
Move to Japan 👍
I don’t think they’re too keen with gaijins
vane@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Puts his children in private school without computers.