Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails
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Point of order; Steve Apple actually did awesome shit. Macintosh, iphone, NExT, Pixar, saved an enshittening company, etc.
sure... good for him but why does every fucking parasite now think they can fill his shoes?
and how were they able to this cosplay for this long with out being called for it?
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sure... good for him but why does every fucking parasite now think they can fill his shoes?
and how were they able to this cosplay for this long with out being called for it?
Well, those are different questions . . .
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- Following backlash to statements that Duolingo will be AI-first, threatening jobs in the process, CEO Luis von Ahn has tried to walk back his statement.
- Unfortunately, the CEO doesn’t walk back any of the key points he originally outlined, choosing instead to try, and fail to placate the maddening crowd.
- Unfortunately the PR team may soon be replaced by AI as this latest statement has done anything but instil confidence in the firm’s users.
In another thread someone told me you can buy gems or something to keep your streak going.
That would've made me uninstall long before his comments.
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I just started using Duolingo to learn Spanish. Can anyone recommend alternatives they have had success with that function the same way?
Anki is free. If you need gamification, then perhaps memrize is for you. I'd just go with anki though. Ankidroid is a good app to work with the anki decks.
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I canceled my sub, but sadly not out of principle on the AI thing. I just accidentally hit the button that accepts an upgrade to the family plan and it didn't look like there was an easy way to undo it so I just killed the whole subscription.
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I hear good things about Pimsleur as an alternative.
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Pimsleur has been making "real" language courses for 20+ years, you could get CD's with languages back then, there should be plenty to choose from.
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- Following backlash to statements that Duolingo will be AI-first, threatening jobs in the process, CEO Luis von Ahn has tried to walk back his statement.
- Unfortunately, the CEO doesn’t walk back any of the key points he originally outlined, choosing instead to try, and fail to placate the maddening crowd.
- Unfortunately the PR team may soon be replaced by AI as this latest statement has done anything but instil confidence in the firm’s users.
The missing comma in the second bullet point changes the meaning of the sentence.
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Check out "Language Drops" and "Rosetta Stone" if you're looking for replacements. They both have very different approaches to language learning (both from each other and from Duolingo), but their content is at the very least much better curated than Duolingo's.
I haven't gone out of my way to check but AFAIK neither of them is jumping on the AI-before-anything-else train.
Many libraries also give out subscriptions.to Mango. That is usually a paid app and much better than doulingo
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I just started using Duolingo to learn Spanish. Can anyone recommend alternatives they have had success with that function the same way?
I tried out a bunch, including Babbel, Busuu, Language Transfer, Mango, and Memrise. I didn't like them for one reason or another. I finally landed on Lingodeer. It's similar to Duolingo, but it is a paid app. (You can try level 1 of any language for free.)
The regular subscription price is definitely not worth it. It's okay (not great, but not awful) when they do their sales. But I felt okay about paying human workers.
This kind of learning is a great start, but will only get you so far. If your local library has access to Kanopy, look for the Great Courses series on Spanish. I thought that was an excellent series after a little bit of Duolingo.
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In another thread someone told me you can buy gems or something to keep your streak going.
That would've made me uninstall long before his comments.
I remember easily getting gems for free. Also the streak basically doesn't matter at all. What made me uninstall is the slow pace. It felt like I was stuck on the same words and topics forever. It felt like I was not actually learning anything, which if you've ever started learning a language if a formal setting, is very apparent.
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Those rich idiots figure you just have to act a certain way, and they conveniently forget that you also need the talent to justify the act instead of just being born with a silver spoon. It´s also that silver spoon shields them from many of the consequences and being called out.
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Well, the crux of the problem is that AI is trying to approximate intelligence. That's not useful for a CEO.
Respec the AI with lots of points into Charisma and Legal Dexterity. It also needs a large amount of Gold to get started.
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In another thread someone told me you can buy gems or something to keep your streak going.
That would've made me uninstall long before his comments.
Theres also basically zero server side-checking on anything. Hacked APKs let you get premium features for free :3
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Theres also basically zero server side-checking on anything. Hacked APKs let you get premium features for free :3
Got any recommendations for where to find said APKs?
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Theres also basically zero server side-checking on anything. Hacked APKs let you get premium features for free :3
That's awful! Could you please let me know where these APKs are hosted so that I may avoid them?
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Got any recommendations for where to find said APKs?
Just a guess , but maybe the extra net by the bay of torrent.
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I remember easily getting gems for free. Also the streak basically doesn't matter at all. What made me uninstall is the slow pace. It felt like I was stuck on the same words and topics forever. It felt like I was not actually learning anything, which if you've ever started learning a language if a formal setting, is very apparent.
I've found it's best for drilling and not for learning. You'll probably learn faster by reading a textbook or listening to something like the Michel Thomas method that gets you speaking super fast. Then you can hop on Duolingo and make it stick. The secret is knowing the vocabulary beforehand to finish the lessons faster by focusing on your accuracy instead. It's still a lot of grinding, though.
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In another thread someone told me you can buy gems or something to keep your streak going.
That would've made me uninstall long before his comments.
I'm a long time user of Duolingo and you earn plenty to give yourself the occasional streak freeze if you can't go two days without doing a lesson. It's not really as predatory as it sounds. It's nothing like pay to win type games.
Fuck Duolingo for the AI shit though, don't mistake me for a Duolingo simp thinking their blameless. It's just that the monetization is not as predatory as it sounds.
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I'm a long time user of Duolingo and you earn plenty to give yourself the occasional streak freeze if you can't go two days without doing a lesson. It's not really as predatory as it sounds. It's nothing like pay to win type games.
Fuck Duolingo for the AI shit though, don't mistake me for a Duolingo simp thinking their blameless. It's just that the monetization is not as predatory as it sounds.
I have so many could probably keep a streak foing indefinitely without ever doing a lesson, but I'd need to log in every couple days to repurchase the streak freeze.
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I'm a long time user of Duolingo and you earn plenty to give yourself the occasional streak freeze if you can't go two days without doing a lesson. It's not really as predatory as it sounds. It's nothing like pay to win type games.
Fuck Duolingo for the AI shit though, don't mistake me for a Duolingo simp thinking their blameless. It's just that the monetization is not as predatory as it sounds.
Ah, okay, thanks for the info! I've never used Duolingo so I genuinely don't know.
