Duolingo will now be “AI-PRIRST”, the company announced, otherwise it will abandon employees in favor of using AI. IN Public emailGeneral Director Luis von AN told how Duolingo “will gradually stop using contractors for the work that AI can cope with.” This follows the company's decision in January 2024 reduce 10 percent of their contractorsPartly because AI could fulfill its tasks.
In an email, von Academy of Sciences indicates “the need to create a huge amount of content, and this is not scaled manually. One of the best decisions that we have recently made was replaced by a slow process of creating manual content with one from AI. Without artificial intelligence, we will need decades to scale our content for more students. We must be our students to get them, this is the content. ”
The general director claims that Duolingo Nevertheless, “deeply cares about your employees,” but it is necessary to remove narrow places in order to use them best. To this end, he will look for the experience of using AI both when hiring and during performance reviews.
In an email, von AN admits that AI is far from perfect – wow, who knew? But he states that Duolino should move with urgency, and not wait and take “random small hits” in quality. We will have to wait and see how these tips with AI will look like, as a result, they will look.