I'm sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they're an expert on everything just because they've got money.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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What a cunt
Worst part is even after this idiot destroys his own company, he can just claim he was responsible for the highest ever peak stock share price (before he caused the decline).
So many rich psychopaths in capitalist societies.
ai can teach, and cheaper than humans, but I doubt its better than most of us
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I'm so close to letting my streak die because of this dude. Fuck him.
My library (and check yours, too!) has free access to Mango Languages, and what I have tried there has been nice. But they don't guilt trip you into doing lessons so you have to keep on top of it yourself.
Mango Languages doesn't have Esperanto.
I've paid for the year, so I'll do my damnedest to run up their gippity bill.
I ended my streak and uninstalled a while ago. It went downhill when they got rid of the discussion section for the exercises. Add to that stupid sentences I most likely wouldn't say in the real world .
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I absolutely cannot wait for kids to learn about “vegetative electron microscopy”
AI absolutely cannot replace teachers.
Augment possibly but replace? No.
By augment I mean provide some help at the direction of the teacher.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
So he's an ass.
When someone has a vested interest in the answer to a given question they are no longer a reliable source. We collectively need to stop giving a shit about celebrities and capitalists opinions.
That's pretty hilarious considering I've been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it's been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.
Airlearn isn't quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we're used to in English. An LLM could never.
Worse than they used to be?
By a long shot. The sentences have been absolutely unhinged the last couple of weeks, and full of words I haven't learned on top of that.
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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Current LLMs aren't better teachers.
They might be in the future. But definitely not now.
Depends on the teacher and what they're teaching.
If you're just going to get run through a standard curriculum then maybe an AI that optimises towards the individual is better.
shut up dude your AI can't even conjugate italian are verbs properly
Puts his children in private school without computers.
the green duolingo owl has the chance to do the funniest thing
How can you be that dumb and a ceo at the same time..
I'd argue it's a prerequisite
Have you heard of Donald trump? He was the CEO of lots of failed businesses.
Well, Duolingo CEO is a cunt.
I'm convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.
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Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you'll be in for the rest of your life. That's not "child care," it's a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.
We need a "thank you for sharing and fuck that!" Option, not just a like and dislike
Children will just jailbreak the AI. I managed to jailbreak far-right chatbots (until certain platforms started to block common phrases for this purpose), children will be able to do it too.
Also AI is so caca at most jobs the best it could do is help corporations to either produce more low-quality services (which at one point, won't be sustainable) and help in bluffing their way to lower wages and lesser worker protections. At this point, it's barely more than a toy and a spam machine, and most of its supposed cost cuttings rely on both speculations of its future and investment funds to make it look like it's a "free" technology.