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 madsbuch on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:09PM (#38918928)

I know that as well as with any human tutor. The main difference is that I am motivated to check the answer, eg. by asking the woman who is my main reason to learn Polish.

Also, the value of a tutor that in and encouraging way corrects my verb conjugation of być (to be) for the 500th time has a lot more value than the risk of it being wrong on a corner case.

A human tutor would semi-arrogantly have told be off and asked me to look at the dictionary (Yes, I have studied English, German, Spanish, and French in school, I have had more language teacher than anything else)

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by chankstein38 on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:28PM (#38919190)

Curious, when you went back to that woman and checked an answer with her, did she ever say "No that's definitely the wrong way to say it" or anything like that?

I'm not arguing in any way I'm legitimately curious, as someone who has dabbled in language learning, as well as trying to use ChatGPT as a tutor, how its track record has been. Hallucinations was definitely one of my concerns when asking it about language stuff.

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by madsbuch on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:50PM (#38919504)

She corrected usage. Eg. when to use mama and matka where it is super hard to intellectually learn how formal one should be.

But again, in english, when is it appropriate to use mom and mother? It really depends on the context, culture, and relations.

Also hallucinations are probably a good thing for language learning. especially when you have an interface, chat, where you can interrogate – and an AI that does not get offended when you question it.

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by rpmisms on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:45PM (#38919427)

I think hallucinations would be less worrisome, since words and their meanings are collectively probably the strongest suit for ChatGPT.

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