Duolingo presents 148 new language courses that were created with generative, the company announced On Wednesday. The launch occurs as Duolingo has been facing reaction This week later exchange that was going to replace contractors with AI and become a company “Ai-First”.
The company says that the launch of the new courses doubles its offers of current courses and marks the greatest expansion of content in the history of Duolingo.
“The development of our first 100 courses took approximately 12 years, and now, in approximately one year, we can create and launch almost 150 new courses,” said the co -founder and CEO of Duolingo, Luis Von Ahn, in a press release. “This is a great example of how generative AI can directly benefit our students. This launch reflects the incredible impact of our AI and automation investments, which have allowed us to climb at an unprecedented speed and quality.”
In the past, it would normally have to build a single course in Duolingo years, says the company. Now, he was able to use generative and other tools to launch 148 courses in less than a year.
While Duolingo is promoting its use of AI, the company faces a violent reaction from users who are discouraged by their plans to use technology to replace workers and use it more deeply in their application.
Monday, von ahn said Staff in an email that the company was changing to AI and that “gradually would stop using contractors to do the job that AI can handle.” He also wrote that “staff will only occur if a team cannot automate more of their work.”
“It’s not just a productivity impulse,” he wrote. “It helps us to approach our mission. To teach well, we need to create a massive amount of content, and make it manually not scale. One of the best decisions we recently made was to replace a process of creation of slow and manual content with an AI.
Users have resorted to social networks to share their disgust with the company’s plans, with Some arguing that its use of AI is worsen the application With inaccurate and lower quality content. Others have eliminated the application And they are encouraging others to do the same.
As for the new language courses, Duolingo says that they are mainly designed to support beginner levels. They include characteristics such as stories, which help develop reading comprehension, and Duoradio, which helps with auditory understanding. The company plans to launch more advanced content in the coming months.