- Following backlash to statements that Duolingo will be AI-first, threatening jobs in the process, CEO Luis von Ahn has tried to walk back his statement.
- Unfortunately, the CEO doesn’t walk back any of the key points he originally outlined, choosing instead to try, and fail to placate the maddening crowd.
- Unfortunately the PR team may soon be replaced by AI as this latest statement has done anything but instil confidence in the firm’s users.
“AI is creating uncertainty for all of us, and we can respond to this with fear or curiosity. I’ve always encouraged our team to embrace new technology (that’s why we originally built for mobile instead of desktop), and we are taking that same approach with AI. By understanding the capabilities and limitations of AI now, we can stay ahead of it and remain in control of our own product and our mission,” writes von Ahn.
Now please explain in more detail how this advice should be followed, practically, by someone you just fired because AI was cheaper. Give examples of how they can embrace this change with curiousity so as to remain in control of the product and mission they are no longer employed to work on.
EndOfLine@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Where is the discussion for replacing CEOs with AI? Seems like predicting market trends based off of historical data and managing corporate resources would be just the sort of thing that AI would be good at. Plus it would cost way less and not require massive bonuses nor ownership of the company.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well, the crux of the problem is that AI is trying to approximate intelligence. That’s not useful for a CEO.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 days ago
boom
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 days ago
Respec the AI with lots of points into Charisma and Legal Dexterity. It also needs a large amount of Gold to get started.