From PC Mag: Language learning platform Duolingo has announced plans to go "AI-First," a strategy that will integrate AI into more of the company's workflow and eventually eliminate contract workers.
"AI is already changing how work gets done," writes Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn in a memo shared with employees and on the company's LinkedIn page. "When there's a shift this big, the worst thing you can do is wait."
In the memo, von Ahn also explains the rationale behind Duolingo's AI pivot. He highlights how AI can benefit the company and compares the current AI wave to the rise of mobile apps in 2012.
"To teach well, we need to create a massive amount of content, and doing that manually doesn't scale. One of the best decisions we made recently was replacing a slow, manual content creation process with one powered by Al," von Ahn writes.
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