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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

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

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

fortune.com

als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.
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    I’m sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they’re an expert on everything just because they’ve got money.

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      Plus they basically have advanced degrees in enshittification

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      Well, the poor tend to be less educated and only care about immediate needs. So yeah, if you have money, you’re probably more of an expert than a person without money.

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        the poor tend to be less educated

        Education being free or not depends on the specific government and its policies of a sovereign country. Education may not be free in your country, in which case yes poor people have less access if they have less money to afford it.

        You generalizing your experience in your country to the entire world, though, speaks to your bias and lack of education, which is quite ironic. It also speaks to your willingness to accept the status quo rather than try to undermine it and fight for something better for everyone.

        If you’re on Lemmy, you’re likely not rich, and so you’re acting against your own interest. We as a proletariat could achieve so much if we were willing to put aside our differences, aim towards the removal of rich twats from power, and install systems and policies that benefit us, not them.

        Instead, you’re propagating a lie with undertones that only rich people have the curiosity to learn about the world around them - as if they were born with that capability while the rest of us weren’t - all while failing to recognize that immediate needs have to be met first before people think about pursuing higher goals.

        Have a down vote.

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          Proletariat, lol. Are you living in the 18th century?

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            What word would you use?

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        That’s a rather large leap in logic. And “the poor” wasn’t even mentioned, so your opinion just comes off as inflammatory

        But I guess opinions are like kittens, people just give 'em away

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        Ah yes. “The poor”. Know all about them do you?

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          Considering the fact that I grew up in extreme poverty - yes, yes I know ALL about them. Unlike random muricans who’s only struggle is inability to buy a new iPhone each year.

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            Do you honestly believe there is no greater poverty in America than “can’t buy the latest phone”? What about the swathes of people who struggle to keep a roof over their heads?

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              Making bad financial decisions is not poverty.

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                And bicycles aren’t French bulldogs. So what?

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            You know, you’re winning me over. You do sound like an idiot.

            • Aux@feddit.uk
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              Oh no!

              Anyways…

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        lick them boots.

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        Yes cause a spoiled brat that constantly relied on their parents’ money growing up is sure to be shrewd and technical.

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        I’m poor as shit and I think I’m pretty damn smart.

        My ex was a trust fund baby and dumb as rocks. I did his college capstone for him.

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          People who think they are smart usually overestimate their abilities.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

          Personally I don’t buy into the whole measurable intelligence mentality. I am a firm believer that a person without any medically significant cognitive deficiencies are all smart in some way and are experts in some particular field/subject.

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            False confidence is real, but it’s silly to think all confidence is false.

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            Dunning-Kruger is very overstated.

            The original paper by Dunning and Kruger starts with the quote: “It is one of the essential features of incompetence that the person so inflicted is incapable of knowing that they are incompetent.” This idea has spread far and wide through both scientific literature and pop culture alike. But according to the work of my colleagues and me, the reality is that very few people are truly unskilled and unaware. The Dunning and Kruger experiment did find a real effect – most people think they are better than average. But according to my team’s work, that is all Dunning and Kruger showed. The reality is that people have an innate ability to gauge their competence and knowledge. To claim otherwise suggests, incorrectly, that much of the population is hopelessly ignorant.

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          Think less.

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            Think more.

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