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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago
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Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.
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    I noticed too many hallucinations in AI, We don’t want to learn the wrong things. For beginners, the risk of learning the wrong thing is high and just add to confusion. I switched back to humans for most things.

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      Yeah. Humans are totally reliable

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories

      https://www.ncjw.org/news/texas-approves-new-bible-based-curriculum-for-elementary-schools/#%3A~%3Atext=The+Texas+board+of+education%2Cfifth+grade+public+school+classes.

      Don’t want to learn the wrong thing right.

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        The wrong thing I am talking about is language related, grammar, pronunciation, vocab, spelling, translation. Are those conspiracy theory topic and bible topics taught using correct grammar, spelling, vocab, translation, pronunciation and etc? If they are then I could care less what the topic is so long as it is interesting to me.

        Human can make mistakes but one clear difference I notice is that a human teacher will correct her past error in previous lesson but AI never does that.

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          Oh its totally fine if their curriculum is totally religious so long as it’s spelled correctly.

          https://www.aclutx.org/sites/default/files/joint_letter_to_texas_school_districts_opposing_bluebonnet_k-5_rla_curriculum.pdf

          That is unimaginably stupid.

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            If you like religious topics for language learning, that is up to you. I could care less what topics you like.

            I won’t go to that school to learn language since I am not interested in religious stuff. I know people who read the bible in Target language to learn. I know there are churches that conduct very extensive language learning courses where you learn a new language within 9 weeks.

            For me, i prefer to watch and read sci-fi, fantasy, conspiracy stuff, biography, crime and science topics to learn language. At the end of the day the topic has to be interesting enough for you to keep consuming content in the target language.

            if you like spiders, go and learn your TL by reading every book on spiders. I could care less what topic you use to learn a language.

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              It’s texas public schools. How privileged you are to get to just decide to ignore those schools. Most people don’t have that option.

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                Where and what is texas?

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