The CEO of Duolingo has said that the company intends to use an “first” approach to the work.
This means that the app for learning languages ”gradually stops using contractors to do work that AI can handle,” said CEO Luis von Ahn.
The message went out in an e -mail to all the staff before he was placed on the Duolingo LinkedIn account.
Despite this daring claim, Von Ahn was clear to say that “Duolingo will remain a company that gives his employees deep and that” this is not about replacing duos by AI. “
The focus is to remove what he calls bottlenecks to enable employees to concentrate on creative work and problems. The idea is to prevent human employees from waste time on repetitive tasks.
A specific example in the memo was a recent step to replace slow, manual content creation with AI – something that the CEO claimed to have cost the company for years to scale up differently.
Von Ahn’s statement points out how the wider acceptance of AI can work throughout the company and says: “Making small adjustments to systems that are designed for people will not get us there. In many cases we have to start all over again.
“We are not going to rebuild everything at night, and some things – such as AI to understand our codebase – will take time. We cannot wait until the technology is 100% perfect. We prefer to move with urgency and occasionally take small hits on quality than go slowly and miss the moment.”
A similar memo recently assumed the Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke. In this message he made the point to say that before the staff could demand more resources or support, they first have to show why they cannot achieve their goals by using AI.
As indicated in a recent Decrypt Article, AI could represent a lucrative space to work in the short term in the short term. AI jobs pay an average of 77% more than other jobs, whereby entry level pays more than twice the average salary.
Published by Stacy Elliott.
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