Duolingo will change contract staff with AI

Duolingo is now going to be “AI-first,” the corporate has introduced — aka it is going to drop workers in favor of utilizing AI. In a publicly shared email, CEO Luis von Ahn outlined how Duolingo will “progressively cease utilizing contractors to do work that AI can deal with.” This follows the corporate’s January 2024 choice to cut 10 percent of its contractors, partially as a result of AI may do their duties.

Within the e-mail, von Ahn factors to Duolingo’s “have to create an enormous quantity of content material, and doing that manually doesn’t scale. Probably the greatest choices we made just lately was changing a gradual, guide content material creation course of with one powered by AI. With out AI, it could take us a long time to scale our content material to extra learners. We owe it to our learners to get them this content material ASAP.”

The CEO claims that Duolingo nonetheless “cares deeply about its workers” however that it must take away bottlenecks to greatest make the most of them. To that finish, it will likely be on the lookout for expertise utilizing AI each in hiring and when doing efficiency opinions.

Within the e-mail, von Ahn admits that AI is way from excellent — wow, who knew? However, he states that Duolingo ought to transfer with urgency, moderately than wait and take “occasional small hits” quality-wise. We’ll have to attend and see what these AI-powered prompts will seem like in consequence.

This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/duolingo-will-replace-contract-workers-with-ai-123058178.html?src=rss

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