Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We need a “thank you for sharing and fuck that!” Option, not just a like and dislike

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist ‘because they want money’

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AI can’t teach you manners lmao

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• LiamClicks@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.

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• j4yt33@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Certainly nobody needs Duolingo to learn anything

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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• AnotherPenguin@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can we replace this guy with AI?

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ai CEOs would save so much money

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It would actually have to listen to legal and marketing, can you imagine? No other private school baby could ever compete with that.

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• nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  CEO disdain for humanity, as exhibited by this individual, makes me wonder if people named Luigi might feel that they are needed by CEOs.

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• WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • eleitl@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.

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• oplkill@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In near future all CEOs will be replaced by AI

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would be very hard to be worse than them.

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  • KumaSudosa@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    An AI would definitely do a better job than this twerp. He should live by what he preaches and step down

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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”

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  • 3abas@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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…

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I say: I can’t stand the CEO of Duolingo, and his supremely punchable smirk-face.

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• maarten.cappaert@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  "Try Super Duolingo now to avoid interruptions." Interruptions which are only there to promote Super Duolingo in the first place.

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.”

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• heavyboots@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll be looking for a new Spanish app when my subscription expires next year now, alas.

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You shouldn’t have given them money in the first place.

    Did you learn your lesson, or are you going to throw money at another proprietary product while thinking you’re “helping out”?

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    • heavyboots@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean I’ve been using DuoLingo for like a decade (only paid the last 2 years) and it’s been very useful until now.

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• xenomor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.

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• ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dude sucks

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  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Solution? lingonaut.app

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The solution should be something that isn’t just free, but also open-source.

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    • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Join our Discord server and Sub-Reddit!”.

      Umm, no thanks.

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• pogodem0n@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any alternatives for learning Japanese? I have already learned about 500 words and 20 kanji.

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  • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Give Hey Japan a look. I’m a noob, but it seems friendly.

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  • reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe some of the resources on this site can help.

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  • engineer@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I haven’t used it much, but www.wanikani.com claims they are pretty good.

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  • Dalraz@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • riskable@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Move to Japan 👍

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think they’re too keen with gaijins

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• rowdyrockets@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I quite like Busuu after switching from Duo. Still hanging out for a Japanese Language Transfer course

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you have a library card, you might check with your library to see if they have free access to something like Mango Languages, as well.

    Mine does, so I can use that app for free. I’m probably going to switch to it as my main app soon because this guy is an asshole.

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  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    +1 for language transfer.

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • rowdyrockets@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What a sad little man you must be. Go virtue signal somewhere else.

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  • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • rowdyrockets@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• R3D4CT3D@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dude just can’t help himself. Gotta open his mouth and dropkick his own throat.

  All because he fucked up.

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  • Coldcell@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just don’t know why every one of these idiots looks so damn punchable.

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    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because they are.

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• Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tell me more about this apple up your ass

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    • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apples are great against diarrhea.

      It’s just hard to get them out later.

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  • pootzapie@lemy.lol ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Amazing comment thank you

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tell me more about this apple up your ass

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • KumaSudosa@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh don’t worry, using Duolingo would’ve never taught you a language anyway!

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it’s not even funny.

    Irony.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What?

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• Eczpurt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is better. Better for them.

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, is gamification bad now?

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