“We are recruiting at the same rate as before.” In an interview with the New York Times, Luis Von Ahn, Chief of Duolingo (request that offers lessons to learn to talk about other languages), returns to the criticisms that have shaken their business.
Duolingo had announced at the beginning of the year to resolve to use the production of his lessons. A statement that had raised a series of concerns, especially for company employees.
A passage to the mixed AI
In April, the boss said that Duolingo would now focus on the integration of AI to drastically increase its productivity, before a “company that prioritizes AI”. In the process, it launched almost 148 new courses created using generative artificial intelligence.
As Techcrunch reported, an email from Luis Von Ahn shared on LinkedIn aroused many questions. “Little by little we will stop using hired workers to do the work that can be administered,” we could read in this email. Or, “more workforce will be assigned to teams that cannot further automate their work.”
This announcement had two effects for the company with a green owl. A first positive, since this transition to the conquered investors, the shares increased more than 20% shortly after. But, the back of the medal is that this statement led to the outrage of some of the users, some requested the application boycott.
No internal controversy
Despite these controversies, the boss states that the dynamics of recruitment continues as before. “We have never fired any full -time employee. We don’t intend to do it,” he said. The man states that “he has not given enough context” when the email mentioned above was published.
However, the boss does not hide his madness for AI. “In the next five years, people’s work will probably change,” he told the New York Times. He says that he has established the days of Frai (which could be translated by “Friday-IA”), noon that allow teams to find “how to be more effective with AI.”
Source: BFM TV
