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@als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago

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

fortune.com

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

fortune.com

@als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago
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Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.
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  • @Almacca@aussie.zone
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    0•5 months ago

    I’m sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they’re an expert on everything just because they’ve got money.

    • @LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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      0•5 months ago

      Plus they basically have advanced degrees in enshittification

  • @Etterra@discuss.online
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    0•5 months ago

    So he’s an ass.

    • @demunted@lemmy.ml
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      0•5 months ago

      When someone has a vested interest in the answer to a given question they are no longer a reliable source. We collectively need to stop giving a shit about celebrities and capitalists opinions.

    • @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      Yeah, they already said “CEO”.

      • @LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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        Chief Enshittification Office

  • HexesofVexes
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    0•5 months ago

    Depends what you want kids to learn.

    Propaganda, yes; everything else, no…

  • @drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
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    0•5 months ago

    fuck this fetus looking cum stain.

  • @Zacpod@lemmy.world
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    0•5 months ago

    And that just underlines my decision to quit Duolingo when it got contaminated with AI stop.

    I can tell you from experience that AI was worse at teaching me a language than humans were.

  • @ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee
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    0•5 months ago

    Dude sucks

    • @ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee
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      0•5 months ago

      Solution? https://lingonaut.app/

      • @YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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        0•5 months ago

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

        Umm, no thanks.

        • @ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee
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          0•5 months ago

          Obvi

      • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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        0•5 months ago

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

  • [R3D4CT3D]
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    0•5 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.

  • @Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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    0•5 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

    • @pootzapie@lemy.lol
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      0•5 months ago

      Amazing comment thank you

      • AwesomeLowlander
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        0•5 months ago

        Tell me more about this apple up your ass

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      0•5 months ago

      Tell me more about this apple up your ass

      • @Hule@lemmy.world
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        0•5 months ago

        Apples are great against diarrhea.

        It’s just hard to get them out later.

    • FaceDeer
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      Good thing human teachers never have hidden biases.

      • @Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz
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        Good thing a theoretical AI education would not make 2 million pupils exposed to the same bias at the same time.

        • @Zexks@lemmy.world
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          0•5 months ago

          Like this

          https://www.ncjw.org/news/texas-approves-new-bible-based-curriculum-for-elementary-schools/#%3A~%3Atext=The+Texas+board+of+education%2Cfifth+grade+public+school+classes.

      • @IronKrill@lemmy.ca
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        Indeed. Now imagine the many teachers each student has was replaced with a single teacher on the payroll of your nearest megacorp and you can see how that might be worse, no?

        • @Zexks@lemmy.world
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          Because the government couldn’t make or run it’s own ai. Totally impossible. Completely unimaginable.

          • @scintilla@lemm.ee
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            0•5 months ago

            Your parents failed you I’m sorry.

            • @Zexks@lemmy.world
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              0•5 months ago

              I mean, I’m doing better than pretty much everyone on here. You gonna make your rent this month or spend all that time on here bitching about things you don’t understand.

          • @IronKrill@lemmy.ca
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            Yeah, as I say, on the payroll of the nearest megacorp. Haha jk… unless?

  • @db2@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • @KumaSudosa@feddit.dk
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      Oh don’t worry, using Duolingo would’ve never taught you a language anyway!

    • @gradual@lemmings.world
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      These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it’s not even funny.

      Irony.

  • @apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    0•5 months ago

    Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.

    • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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      I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.

      • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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        Wait, is gamification bad now?

        • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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          It can be done to a stupid degree. Duolingo defines the outer limits.

          • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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            And it’s so true about Duolingo. They push you to “play” to a point that it’s stressful. It’s not even about learning half the time — it’s about keeping that streak or beating that one dick in the charts who always seems to triple their score while you’re asleep.

            • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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              0•5 months ago

              My daughter keeps texting me screenshots of her “streak” achievements as if that means anything. And then when I ask her how to say something in German she barely knows a thing.

              • KSP Atlas
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                Lernt man den Grammatik auf Duolingo? Ich weiß es nicht weil ich benutze das nicht.

                • @Strider@lemmy.world
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                  Lernt man denn Grammatik auf Duolingo? Ich weiß es nicht weil ich sie nicht benutze.

                  Fixed (although most likely not perfect, since that is always debatable).

          • @k0e3@lemmy.ca
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            Makes sense. I read your comment as any gamification is shit; my bad!

        • FippleStone
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          Always has been 👉

  • @RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
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    0•5 months ago

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

    All because he fucked up.

    • @Coldcell@sh.itjust.works
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      0•5 months ago

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

      • masterofn001
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        Because they are.

  • @Eczpurt@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • @floo@retrolemmy.com
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      Removed by mod

  • @pogodem0n@lemmy.world
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    0•5 months ago

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

    • L3ft_F13ld!
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      Maybe some of the resources on this site can help.

    • Riskable
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      Move to Japan 👍

      • I Cast Fist
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        I don’t think they’re too keen with gaijins

    • @Dalraz@lemmy.ca
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      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.

    • @grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Give Hey Japan a look. I’m a noob, but it seems friendly.

    • @engineer@infosec.pub
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      I haven’t used it much, but https://www.wanikani.com/ claims they are pretty good.

    • @FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub
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      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.

  • rowdyrockets
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    I ended my sub and deleted my account when they announced they’d be replacing their contract 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.

    • @gradual@lemmings.world
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      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.

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

        • @gradual@lemmings.world
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          Lol. I guess not.

          • rowdyrockets
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            There’s no lesson to be learned dipshit. I give money to companies when I want to use their products, and I stop when I don’t. You’re not enlightened - you’re just an asshole.

            • @gradual@lemmings.world
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              Rather than acknowledge you got ripped off and learn from your mistakes, you lash out at the messenger.

              It’s typical among you people and I don’t expect more at this point.

              Thanks for proving my assumption correct.

              • rowdyrockets
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                Maybe a few bucks a month is a lot for you - that’s okay. Regardless, pretty sure you’re just trolling at this point so:

                • @gradual@lemmings.world
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                  This is why useful idiots are the norm.

    • @SippyCup@feddit.nl
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      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.

      • rowdyrockets
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        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.

        • @SippyCup@feddit.nl
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          I’m just glad I pirated the premium version

    • @garretble@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • @JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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      0•5 months ago

      +1 for language transfer.

  • @xenomor@lemmy.world
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    I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.

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