Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’

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• grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  „AI is creating uncertainty for all of us, and we can respond to this with fear or curiosity.“

  How about we respond to this with reason?

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• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Still not installing it, Luis.

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• ech@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Luis von Ahn says criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs

  Motherfucker, you’re the one that fired slews of employees to be replaced by text-prediction algorithms. It’s not “anxiety”, you’re fucking doing it.

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  • raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, he’s still just as delutional and thinks the problem is everyone else.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fire that CEO, he’s an idiot.

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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you have ever been to any major SLT or higher meeting, the phrases “This is the first time I am hearing about that” or “That’s not what was reported to me” come up so much that I’m amazed the meetings even finish on time. Plausible deniability of the name of the game.

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    • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I said “I sent a video recording of this a month ago and received confirmation. Do you not have that?” and got back “I never got that.”

      “Alright, got it. Thankfully it’s not my problem anymore but you know where yours is.” and left it at that.

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    • fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That’s true and this is not an example of such a situation, because he knew exactly what the reaction was going to be. He probably felt that he could ride that AI bubble away from it, but he knew the reaction was waiting for him.

      The other thing about that claim, when it could possibly be credible, is it means that essentially the boss is not qualified to do their job. The one thing they should have done is been chatting with ordinary workers or customers to see what the actual needs are, and they’re admitting it to somehow deflect from a bad decision they made but in doing so they’ve unwittingly shown that they’re basically incompetent at their entire job.

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• jontree255@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ”I’m out of touch with reality” - another dipshit rich guy.

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a simple and plain admisison that you are incopetent at your job. You should resign…

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like the only job AI would be better suited at would be CEO.

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    • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, they take in current hype, change a few words and then regurgitate it with slightly different words.

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  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah let him keep it longer. I think the company sales can go lower

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• Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI could easily replace ceos

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seriously - LLMs are much more adequate to do a CEO’s job than an engineer’s. Maybe the crazied scramble to push AI “features” into products is to distract customers, workers and shareholders from this fact?

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• rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anti-human little creep, I uninstalled and cancelled my subscription as soon as I heard the news

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Way to reinforce the stereotype, out-of-touch rich dude. Most people who actually work for a living see no benefit from AI, and resent it being shoved into every single product, whether it makes sense or not. Oh well, at least you can burn boatloads of VC money while also destroying the environment and abusing intellectual property to train it!

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• brandon@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's hardly surprising that these people are out of touch when they're constantly surrounded in a bubble of yes-men, cultish AI sycophants, VC investors and other "dark enlightenment" enthusiasts.

  It's a pathology, really. A kind of shared delusion in service of global capital.

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• Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well prime example of a ceo making a stupid ass mistake. He should be replaced and bonuses removed.

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• Kekzkrieger@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because ceos habe lost all their touch with reality (if they ever had any)

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Look at his old amas on Reddit to see what kind of guy he is. He’s always been a prick.

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  • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I looked through a few pages worth of his comments (in English and Spanish) and I didn’t pick up on that. Was there a particular response you were thinking about, or might it have been something that is now deleted?

    old.reddit.com/user/vonahn

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Around the time they switched to more gamified patting about two years ago he did not respond well to valid criticisms by people with disabilities in one of those AMAs and it is a major reason why I quit. I will have to dig when I’m on a PC. There were several posts on that subreddit on that topic around that time. I’m not sure if they are still there.

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs

  No, it’s because over the last few years you’ve made your app progressively worse and worse. Almost the entire time I’ve been using this app I’ve seen it get worse and worse. And it’s clear that your push for AI has made it a more boring way to learn.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He vomited an assumption on how people would react, and acted on it. The outcome of his actions proved the assumption wrong. At this stage, a sane / rational person would step back and say “…perhaps I should inform myself”. But no, this bloody muppet had to vomit yet another assumption - why their reaction was negative. *rolls eyes*

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I have too much money!”

  “I think much too highly of myself!”

  “I’m a complete bastard!”

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• shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then you’re a fucking idiot, anyone could see it coming.

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• AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I work for an AI company and even we thought what he said was stupid. I hope he gets what he deserves…but unfortunately I don’t know if that’s how capitalism in America works as of late.

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I could not correctly predict that most of this is hype and got delusional thinking I could make some quick bucks PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF TECHNOLOGY

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• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Tech CEO Bubble is real and one of the most harmful, even if it doesn’t get talked about like our respective political bubbles, geographical bubbles, etc. I actually believe he was actually that deluded that people were as hyped about AI replacing workers as he was.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It isn’t exclusive to the CEOs. It is really just Tue big tech giants in general

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Business majors have been allowed free reign for too long, we must unite against the enemy within, in this manifesto I will

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A serious three-step questionnaire for any subscription service considering AI:

  1. Could your paid centralized service be accomplished by free local models?

  2. Yes it could.

  3. Don’t ruin your thing with cloud AI bullshit.

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• dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somewhat related, I just started Spanish lessons using Language Transfer. Fewer bells and whistles but it’s human centric.

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  • gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For my money (and I do donate every month to Language Transfer, because all the content is completely free) this is the best system for actually learning to use a language, as opposed to memorizing words and phrases.

    You can do it with YouTube audio, SoundCloud MP3s, or the convenient app that does what it needs to without any extra bells in whistles.

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• SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As usual tech obsessives are completely disconnected from the general population.

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• Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  He should have asked ChatGPT if there would be any blowback to using an LLM instead of people.

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  • barrbaric@hexbear.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He may have done just that and its forced positivity convinced him he was a genius.

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• heavyboots@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck this fucktard. “I’m shocked—shocked!—that people would react negatively to my cheaping out on the entire app and turning it into a random half-assed AI-first spew of gibberish!”

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol what a gimp

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Get the name of my image editor out of your mouth

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol what an MS Paint

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