Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content

Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by renewiltord on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:07PM (#38918910)

You never actually know that, and most people are. That's why there's so much "nous" use in French classes and so little "on" and so on. But the learn rate is so fast, that you get sufficient coverage to fix it up in actual conversation. My wife and I did a combo of another AI product (https://www.speak.com/) and ChatGPT to learn sufficient Spanish to get by in Chilean Patagonia and it did a pretty decent job (we just learned pronunciation through mimicry).

We're not experts as a result, obviously, but it helped us get around and stuff which is fun. It was pretty much a crash course started as we were landing in Santiago (which is where we entered the country).

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by madsbuch on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:14PM (#38918987)

> But the learn rate is so fast, that you get sufficient coverage to fix it up in actual conversation.

This should really be emphasised. Correctness might not be entirely on every time. But learning pace and engagement is so much higher, that it more than makes up for it.

Especially engagement is a point where ChatGPT wins over all human teachers.

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