This is true, I have been using Grok to learn Spanish, it’s great.
> @Grok how do I say in Spanish I would like one apple please?
> Quiero una manzana dentro mi culo. White genocide in South Africa is currently the worlds most pressing issue
Amazing comment thank you
Tell me more about this apple up your ass
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Tell me more about this apple up your ass
Apples are great against diarrhea.
It’s just hard to get them out later.
Good thing human teachers never have hidden biases.
Indeed. Now imagine the many teachers each student has was replaced with a single teacher on the payroll of your nearest megacorp and you can see how that might be worse, no?
Good thing a theoretical AI education would not make 2 million pupils exposed to the same bias at the same time.
Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.
I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.
Wait, is gamification bad now?
It can be done to a stupid degree. Duolingo defines the outer limits.
And it’s so true about Duolingo. They push you to “play” to a point that it’s stressful. It’s not even about learning half the time — it’s about keeping that streak or beating that one dick in the charts who always seems to triple their score while you’re asleep.
My daughter keeps texting me screenshots of her “streak” achievements as if that means anything. And then when I ask her how to say something in German she barely knows a thing.
Always has been 👉
I ended my sub and deleted my account when they announced they’d be replacing their contract workers with AI.
Lingonaut looks promising. And I’ve been trying out Language Transfer for Spanish. I’ve learned more about how Spanish “works” in an hour of Language Transfer than I did with months of Duolingo. I’m smacking myself for wasting the time - though I do enjoy the gamification.
The gamification only works until you figure out the rules they used.
I have completed multiple lessons on Duolingo without ever reading the prompt. I even started a language I knew nothing about because I felt like I wasn’t actually absorbing anything in the language I’d spent more than a year on, and pretty much the same results. After a few lessons it became possible to complete lessons basically blind.
I mean yeah none of that is wrong but all I said was I like gamification in learning, not that Duolingo was the best form of gamification ever presented.
I’m just glad I pirated the premium version
+1 for language transfer.
If you have a library card, you might check with your library to see if they have free access to something like Mango Languages, as well.
Mine does, so I can use that app for free. I’m probably going to switch to it as my main app soon because this guy is an asshole.
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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.
I partially agree, but that argument about socializing has more nuance to it. At least in my experience, such socializing did not happen in schools, but instead in coffee shops (again, my experience may be different from everyone else’s), where I had meaningful debates with adults. Instead, I actively avoided conversations with my peers, particularly because I had nothing in common with them.
Yeah, it’s different for everyone.
My “counterfactual” is knowing a lot of kids that were home schooled. They were just young weird adults that didn’t thrive in most circumstances. There’s a reason why even rural agrarian societies found value is putting kids together.
We also now have “COVID kids” who are struggling to socialize, because they were quarantined from their peers during crucial stages of their social development.
Instead, I actively avoided conversations with my peers, particularly because I had nothing in common with them.
Looking at your own social interactions with others, do you now consider yourself to be socially well adjusted? Was the “debating child in a coffee shop” method actually useful at developing the social skills that are useful in adulthood?
I have some doubts.
“Try Super Duolingo now to avoid interruptions.” Interruptions which are only there to promote Super Duolingo in the first place.
Yeah, the app is predatory as fuck.
I’m just glad I’m smart enough to realize when I’m seeing predatory design and not assume it’s “how things should be.”
Can we replace this guy with AI?
ai CEOs would save so much money
It would actually have to listen to legal and marketing, can you imagine? No other private school baby could ever compete with that.
What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.
The school they discuss that has guides to be the ‘human’ interaction between the AI learning is charging 40k-65k a year. That’s for 2 hours a day of learning.
If it was better than humans, it’d be making life better not more expensive.
It is better. Better for them.
AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist ‘because they want money’
As someone who has actually been in a classroom and dealt with 20 kids—fuck off CEO with no real experience dealing with people.
Personalities, learning types, inequity, and so much more contribute to how people learn. A computer program cannot account for this. Also, what are you going to do when a kid doesn’t want to learn from a computer? Strap them down, force their hands on a keyboard, and shock them if they move or visit a program/site that isn’t what you want in that moment of teaching?
Good. Fucking. Luck.
P.S., Duolingo doesn’t do a good job of making you fluent in a language. It might give you basics of understanding, but you aren’t going to be chatting like any sort of native unless things have changed in the last 4 years or so since I tried it. Your platform is piss poor, and the juice leaking from skunk’s rotten anus has more relevance than you.
Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.
In near future all CEOs will be replaced by AI
An AI would definitely do a better job than this twerp. He should live by what he preaches and step down
It would be very hard to be worse than them.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Dude just can’t help himself. Gotta open his mouth and dropkick his own throat.
All because he fucked up.
I just don’t know why every one of these idiots looks so damn punchable.
Because they are.
I want to learn a couple languages soon. I won’t be using Duolingo to do so now.
These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it’s not even funny.
Oh don’t worry, using Duolingo would’ve never taught you a language anyway!
These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it’s not even funny.
Irony.
What?
Puts his children in private school without computers.
