Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.
  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    1. Company replaces humans with AI.

    2. Consumers notice a drop in quality and stop using the product

    3. CEO makes controversial public statements about AI and his product to get into the news.

    Okay buddy, that’s one way of telling people that your doubling down on your mistake.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    17 days ago

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

    • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
      04·
      17 days ago

      Well, the poor tend to be less educated and only care about immediate needs. So yeah, if you have money, you’re probably more of an expert than a person without money.

      • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        17 days ago

        the poor tend to be less educated

        Education being free or not depends on the specific government and its policies of a sovereign country. Education may not be free in your country, in which case yes poor people have less access if they have less money to afford it.

        You generalizing your experience in your country to the entire world, though, speaks to your bias and lack of education, which is quite ironic. It also speaks to your willingness to accept the status quo rather than try to undermine it and fight for something better for everyone.

        If you’re on Lemmy, you’re likely not rich, and so you’re acting against your own interest. We as a proletariat could achieve so much if we were willing to put aside our differences, aim towards the removal of rich twats from power, and install systems and policies that benefit us, not them.

        Instead, you’re propagating a lie with undertones that only rich people have the curiosity to learn about the world around them - as if they were born with that capability while the rest of us weren’t - all while failing to recognize that immediate needs have to be met first before people think about pursuing higher goals.

        Have a down vote.

        • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Considering the fact that I grew up in extreme poverty - yes, yes I know ALL about them. Unlike random muricans who’s only struggle is inability to buy a new iPhone each year.

          • irmoz@reddthat.comEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Do you honestly believe there is no greater poverty in America than “can’t buy the latest phone”? What about the swathes of people who struggle to keep a roof over their heads?

      • MrShankles@reddthat.comEnglish
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        17 days ago

        That’s a rather large leap in logic. And “the poor” wasn’t even mentioned, so your opinion just comes off as inflammatory

        But I guess opinions are like kittens, people just give 'em away

      • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        I’m poor as shit and I think I’m pretty damn smart.

        My ex was a trust fund baby and dumb as rocks. I did his college capstone for him.

  • Lit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I noticed too many hallucinations in AI, We don’t want to learn the wrong things. For beginners, the risk of learning the wrong thing is high and just add to confusion. I switched back to humans for most things.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

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

          • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
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            17 days ago

            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.worldEnglish
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              17 days 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.

  • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I’m sure this won’t be a popular comment, but I can see how having a motivated learner in a 1:1 lesson with an AI might be better for that person than sitting in a class with 35 other people, most of whom don’t want to be there, running through a syllabus that the teacher may not even like, at the pace of the slowest kid in class.

      • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
        01·
        17 days ago

        Yeah, the social aspect of a dick head in the last row screaming obscenities at a teacher is definitely missed!

        • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          When you become an adult you still have to deal with dick heads screaming around you, I know this is Lemmy and people who come here might not have the best social skills, or fond memories of being in school. But schools are a micro representation of the world at large and it’s necessary for kids to have both these good and bad experiences in order to grow up to live in society and deal with all the shit life’s gonna throw at them.

          • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
            01·
            17 days ago

            The only insane shit here comes from the gasket between your chair and your keyboard.

  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    is there an alternative to duolingo that lets me learn multiple languages for a decent price? Rosetta stone was great and all, but i ain’t got 100 bucks to shell out for each language i want to half-assedly learn.

    • analoghobbyist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I just dumped Duolingo after this AI bullshit and am testing Mango Languages. So far I like it, but it is way different than Duolingo. Way less gamified and more focused on speaking. Plus, it gives cultural context to certain phrases that don’t literally translate, which I find interesting and valuable. if you are in the US, your library might offer a free subscription with your library card.

  • isekaihero@ani.socialEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I am strongly pro-AI, but right now I would say it’s not as good as a one-on-one experience with a knowledgeable human teacher. A human teacher can still see where you are struggling and help you work through the difficulty. Right now AI can belch out a correct answer, even write entire essays and computer programs, but can’t as easily work with you one and one, read your body language, see the confusion in your eyes, and help you understand the thing you don’t understand.

    But it will happen. Eventually we will get AI-powered androids. I can’t wait for the day I get my fembot, with a body built for loving and a head full of all the knowledge of the internet, able to teach me anything I want, help me with my studies, teach me new skills, and also cook and clean. Life will drastically change for the better for all us miserable antisocials, social rejects, and autists.

    • frostysauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      If, IF that were to happen so you think the average person would be able to afford an android maid/sex slave? Because if you think so I have a bridge to sell you.

      • isekaihero@ani.socialEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Right now I can’t afford a car. The USA is over 30 trillion dollars in debt and can’t provide quality employment for its own citizens, yet keeps importing illegals in mass because our business owners are desperate to exploit people for less than minimum wage.

        We’re heading towards a collapse at full speed, with or without AI. I think a collapse is necessary. The current system so completely corrupt and self-serving and causes so much harm for the majority of our citizens that I think the best thing to do is burn it to the ground and start over with something different.

        All I can say, is that I take note that humans seem inherently unable to govern themselves effectively. Our history is a long line of failed nations and we have never built a government that won’t collapse into bloody revolution. We have never built an economy that won’t concentrate all wealth into the hands of a despot or oligarch, and we have never had truly compassionate government that actually cares about the people. Nor do I think we have ever had true representative government, and that every republic has worn the veil of democracy all the while empowering a class of super-wealthy oligarchs.

        I think there is merit in creating a new government run by AI. No emotion, no greed, no smug self-entitlement. No scorn for the lower classes. No institutionalized classism. A government run by entities that operate according to pure reason. It would be the closest thing to Plato’s original vision for a society run by philosophers.