iamBullivantMay 21

FFS: What an absolute bellend: "Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’"

Were I still using that POS Duolingo, this would have made me stop.

https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/duolingo-ai-teacher-schools-childcare/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Duolingo

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

Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI, and it has its eye set on schools.

Fortune
Show threadBenjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸6d ago
@bullivant As a school teacher myself, he's not exactly wrong.
Show threadPasswordsarehard46d ago
@ben @bullivant would you be able to maintain control of your classroom over camera? Now imagine what’s going to happen after 15 years of no human contact. You are the primary positive influence to many of those children and without you they are lost.
Show threadBenjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸
@passwordsarehard4 @bullivant Definitely not over camera. A physical presence is vital, in my opinion. I'm sure everyone would agree on that; school isn't just to teach kids facts but for them to have social interaction as well.
May 21 at 1:28pmWeb
Show threadPasswordsarehard46d ago
@ben @bullivant the problem I see is for an AI to effectively teach it will need to segregate. Each student would need to learn independently for it to work, so no interaction. They couldn’t control groups remotely so AI can’t allow children to gather, no interaction there either. The parents are working full time so they have limited input and smaller families ( due to costs mainly) mean no siblings either. It’ll be worse than feral.