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.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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It is better. Better for them.
As someone who has actually been in a classroom and dealt with 20 kids—fuck off CEO with no real experience dealing with people.
Personalities, learning types, inequity, and so much more contribute to how people learn. A computer program cannot account for this. Also, what are you going to do when a kid doesn’t want to learn from a computer? Strap them down, force their hands on a keyboard, and shock them if they move or visit a program/site that isn’t what you want in that moment of teaching?
Good. Fucking. Luck.
P.S., Duolingo doesn’t do a good job of making you fluent in a language. It might give you basics of understanding, but you aren’t going to be chatting like any sort of native unless things have changed in the last 4 years or so since I tried it. Your platform is piss poor, and the juice leaking from skunk’s rotten anus has more relevance than you.
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In near future all CEOs will be replaced by AI
An AI would definitely do a better job than this twerp. He should live by what he preaches and step down
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Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Dude just can't help himself. Gotta open his mouth and dropkick his own throat.
All because he fucked up.
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Puts his children in private school without computers.
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.
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So many rich psychopaths in capitalist societies.
Well, Duolingo CEO is a cunt.
I'm convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.
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shut up dude your AI can't even conjugate italian are verbs properly
We need a "thank you for sharing and fuck that!" Option, not just a like and dislike
CEO disdain for humanity, as exhibited by this individual, makes me wonder if people named Luigi might feel that they are needed by CEOs.
I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.
I absolutely cannot wait for kids to learn about “vegetative electron microscopy”
AI absolutely cannot replace teachers.
Augment possibly but replace? No.
By augment I mean provide some help at the direction of the teacher.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
I say: I can't stand the CEO of Duolingo, and his supremely punchable smirk-face.
What a take.
Schools will continue to exists because education centers makes plain dense for almost any halfdecent society.
Wether the teachers are a personal ai or a single human does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”
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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.
How fast a kid learns 5th grade syllabus is far less important than how well they learn to get along with other kids and form friendships and basically learn how to live in society. Cooperation, conflict resolution, public speaking, group bonding etc. You can't learn any of these things from an AI
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A good AI, sure, this could be plausible. Current ones get too much wrong.
The much bigger issue is we're talking about children, not adults. How many children would be motivated to self teach, every day, for years on end, even if you had an AI equal to a human tutor.
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Current LLMs aren't better teachers.
They might be in the future. But definitely not now.
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Worst part is even after this idiot destroys his own company, he can just claim he was responsible for the highest ever peak stock share price (before he caused the decline).
That's pretty hilarious considering I've been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it's been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.
Airlearn isn't quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we're used to in English. An LLM could never.
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AI can't teach you manners lmao
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.
In other news: AI is a better human than Duolingo CEO