Von Ahn says LLMs teach well but are not good at engagement
Von Ahn says large language models have already helped Duolingo and will continue to do so, but do not solve all its problems. He says they are good at teaching and not good at engagement, which he calls the hardest part of education.
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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn thinks AI has a lot to teach us
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It’s somewhere in between. I do think that large language models are going to be very positive for Duolingo — they already are, and I think they’re going to continue being very positive. What is not true is that large language models solve all our problems. One of the biggest issues that people aren’t talking about, particularly with education, is that large language models are good at teaching you stuff. They’re not good at engagement. And that’s the hardest thing with education.
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