Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?
Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?

Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? | TechCrunch

Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?
Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? | TechCrunch
They have less than 1000 employees. Previous cuts were of 10% of employees. Are they really being replaced with AI or is the curriculum just finished? I have a feeling AI isn't expanding very much of the curriculum. Duolingo is probably just spouting "we have AI" nonsense like every technology company to sound like they are cutting edge.
I doubt they've completely covered every important language. And from what I've seen, their speech recognition quality is terrible. So obviously there's still room for improvement.
And language changes over time, though maybe not much on these timescales. But even if the curriculum officially covers 100% of a language at one point in time, the language is still going to drift from that snapshot.
Are they really being replaced with AI or is the curriculum just finished?
It was not stellar before (lots of mistake, broken sound samples, nonsensical sentences, all never getting fixed despite reporting a lot), and it got measurably worse recently (all of the above in greater amount), so, no, it was not "finished".
Are they really being replaced with AI or is the curriculum just finished?
Nah, they add new AI slop constantly.
I don't see any.
Maybe you aren't far enough along in the lessons.