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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 5 days ago

Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?

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Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 5 days ago
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Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? | TechCrunch
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Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a
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    Seems like a misnomer to call it an “AI jobs crisis.” LLMs just made it much more visible that CEOs and shareholders are greedy, shortsighted, and don’t know how anything works. Duolingo was already mediocre. Now it’s going to be completely useless.

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      Exactly, it’s a Peter Principle crisis.

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    A woodchipper can approximate a tree almost perfectly up to a certain token limit so long as you have a real tree to feed into it.

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