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Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content
(Bloomberg) -- Duolingo Inc., the maker of language-learning software, is cutting some contractors while using generative artificial intelligence to create more content, the latest sign that companies are shifting some tasks typically handled by workers to AI tools. Most Read from BloombergBoeing Slumps After Panel Blowout Leads to Partial 737 GroundingMusk’s Drug Use Concerns Tesla, SpaceX Leaders, WSJ SaysIPhone Survives 16,000-Foot Fall, Helps Steer Jet-Panel HuntChinese Billionaire Is Second
(Bloomberg) -- Duolingo Inc., the maker of language-learning software, is cutting some contractors while using generative artificial intelligence to create more content, the latest sign that companies are shifting some tasks typically handled by workers to AI tools. Chief Executive Officer Luis von Ahn said in a November letter to shareholders that the company is using generative AI — a technology that lets users more quickly create text, speech and images — to produce “new content dramatically faster,” such as the scripts to shows that help teach languages. Last month, Microsoft Corp. responded to those concerns and announced an alliance with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, which is made up of 60 unions that represent 12.5 million workers, to train people about AI and look at how the technology may affect employment.
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