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Duolingo drops nearly 150 new language courses, says AI helped build them

4 pointsby bundie22 days ago

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jfengel21 days ago
That&#x27;s not &quot;150 new languages&quot;. That&#x27;s 7 major languages (Spanish, French, etc), for which courses already existed (mostly in English), targeting the 28 languages for which their app is available.<p>So it&#x27;s not a complete AI-developed course. They took (say) their Spanish course for English language learners, automatically translated the English into Chinese, and now they have a new Spanish-for-Chinese-speakers class.<p>That is much less surprising than my default read of the headline.<p>It will be interesting to see how well it works. Translation tools are pretty darn good, but far from perfect. Did they run it run the content past a person who speaks Chinese and Spanish fluently? Such people surely exist, but I suspect that there aren&#x27;t all that many.