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It’s kind of interesting for the CEO to position DuoLingo this way, because without the human element, DuoLingo feels like exactly the kind of service to be dis
by techpineapple 1y ago
It’s kind of interesting for the CEO to position DuoLingo this way, because without the human element, DuoLingo feels like exactly the kind of service to be disrupted by AI, which I guess is part of the reasons he’s trying to take the foot out of his own mouth.
But it does sort of highlight that I think sooner rather than later, human curation will be a selling point, once AI apps become more the norm.
- charcircuit 1y agoIf Duolingo doesn't disrupt themselves with AI someone else will. The strength of LLMs makes them now rival usefulness of SRS for language learning. >human curation will be a selling point Look at the success of TikTok. Automated recommendations enabled it to become one of the top apps in existence. There is not evidence that consumers care who curated the content. The quality of the recommendation is experimentally proven to be much much more important.
- wjholden 1y agoPrice point matters here. I keep getting ads for a competitor called Jumpspeak. They're very explicit that you're chatting with a bot, but their price is many times higher than Duolingo's subscription.
- highstep 1y agobut Social media companies suppress human curation in favor of their algorithmic recommendations; while human curation doesn't scale as a business model, it still competes for attention—and is thus marginalized.