The CEO of Duolingo, Luis von Ahn, goes straight to the grain by affirming the high capacities of artificial intelligence with respect to human teachers. And it goes further, commenting that, in the future, schools will exist only because we need nurseries.
The truth is that these words in the end come from one of the great CEO of today, to the charge of a platform that has long been betting strong on artificial intelligence. So much so that last year they dared to put an Aye of AI as CEO in a results meeting and, only a few weeks ago, they announced that they will replace their workers hired by automatic systems.
Of course they go with everything in terms of this technology and certainly the way to adopt it is simple for them. With more than 116 million monthly users, the company has collected tons of data on how people learn and presume to predict until the note of an exam before the student does.
Von Ahn is clear: «I am not sure that there is something that a computer cannot teach you.» According to him, AI is able to customize learning much better than any teacher, adapting the level and rhythm to each student in real time. «It is much more scalable to teach with the humans,» he adds.
Of course, von ahn clarifies that teachers will not disappear, but their function will change 100%. «The schools are not going to go anywhere, because we continue to need nurseries,» he jokes. In their vision, teachers will become supervisors and motivators, while IA will be in charge of personalized teaching.
How does the learning model they propose from Duolingo work?
It is quite simple. The base are test exercises, gamified learning and an algorithm that adjusts the difficulty on the flight. The key is in the ability of AI to know exactly what each student fails, when you have to insist on a subject and how to maintain motivation.
Según von Ahn, In a traditional class with 30 students it is impossible to give personalized attention, but the AI can do it, and also without getting tired or losing patience.
In this case, humans become «quality guardians,» he says, reviewing that the generated content is correct and natural, but they no longer create each exercise. Of course, this is acknowledged that not everything can be taught the same: subjects as history may require different videos or approaches, but insists that AI is the solution.
«We are much closer to a crisis than we think»
However, there is also the point of view of precisely teachers and, of course, cocha directly with the vision of this entrepreneur.
The main problem, according to several teachers, is that It is increasingly difficult to know if a student has really learned or has simply managed to ask the artificial intelligence to do the job.
Andy Carolin, a professor at Johannesburg University, summarizes it as follows: «We are much closer to a crisis than we think» and it is not just that students do not write their own texts; Some do not even read what they deliver, which questions the real validity even of the university titles.
This phenomenon is spreading fast, and not only in Spain. Throughout the world, universities wonder if they can continue to guarantee that a title means what it should mean: that the student has 100% the necessary knowledge and skills to exercise a profession.
And, speaking, for example, of the famous end -of -degree works, it is not the same to use this tool for the elaboration of a summary than to use chatgpt to reduce the creation time of your TFG a few hours instead of 1 or 2 months.
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