Duolingo CEO says that the controversial artificial intelligence note is offended

While the CEO of Duolingo Louis von Ahn was loudly this year later Announcement that Dolingo will become “Amnesty International’s First Organization”, “ In a new interview, he suggested that the real issue is that he “did not give a sufficient context.”

“Internal, this was not controversial,” Von Ahn told the New York Times. “From the outside, as a company publicly circulated, some people assume that it is only intended for profit. Or we are trying to lay off humans. This was not the intention at all.”

On the contrary, Von Ahn said that the company “has never offered any full -time employees” and has no intention to do so. While he did not deny that Duolingo had he had The workforce reduced the contractor to itHe suggested that “from the beginning … our contractor’s workforce rose and down depending on the needs.”

Despite criticism (which It does not seem to have a great impact In Duolingo’s bottom line), Von AHN still looks very bullied about the capabilities of artificial intelligence, as Duolingo team members take every Friday morning to experience technology.

He said, “It is a bad abbreviation, Frai Days.” “I don’t know how to pronounce it.”