Duolingo Ulula to AI (and will use it to replace people of flesh and blood)

The AI ​​is on the crest of the wave and, aware of its sensational power, Duolingo intends to put this technology in the foreground to metamorphose in a «ai-first» company. As part of his efforts to give up more and more prominence to AI, the famous online platform to learn languages ​​”will stop gradually use subcontracted employees to assume tasks that AI can execute”. This was announced by Luis von Ahn, CEO and co -founder of Duolingo, in an email referred to the company’s workforce that the head of the app to learn languages ​​has also shared In your LinkedIn profile.

Duolingo’s metamorphosis in a company “ai-first” means, according to von ahn, that the company will necessarily have to rethink the way it works on its domains. “Implementing small changes in systems designed for humans will not take us to the place where we want to arrive,” says Von Ahn. As part of the new paradigm by which the company is governed, the famous platform to learn languages ​​will display several initiatives, including changes in which a Duolingo collaborates with subcontracting employees and the use of AI in the recruitment of personnel and in the evaluation of workers’ performance. Besides, Duolingo will only provide more human resources to their work teams if they are not really in a position to automate to greater extent the tasks that have been previously entrusted to them.

Thus and everything, Von Ahn insists that “Duolingo will continue to be a company that deeply takes care of its employees” and that “it is not about replacing Duos with AI.” The ultimate goal of the changes implemented by the company is “to eliminate bottlenecks” so that their employees can “concentrate on truly creative tasks and real problems, not in repetitive tasks.”

Duolingo will rely on AI to approach his mission

«AI is not only an impulse for productivity. It also helps us to approach our mission. To teach well we need an enormous amount of content and produce that content manually allows us its scale. One of the best decisions we have recently made has been to replace the slow process of creation of manual content by a process propelled by AI. Without AI would take us decades to climb the content we produce to take it to a greater number of students as quickly as possible«, Enfatiza von Ahn.

The content of the von Ahn email is similar to that of the memorandum referred recently to its employees by Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify. In that memo Lütke said that, before requesting more human and material resources, the company’s work teams should demonstrate “why they cannot obtain what they propose using AI.”