A week after declaring that AI would eventually replace contract workers at the language-learning app, Duolingo’s CEO said the company was “continuing to hire” and would support its existing workers in getting up to speed on the technology.

It follows buzzy startup Klarna in backing off an AI-first promise.

Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO, took to LinkedIn on Thursday to walk back a previous stance pushing AI use over human employees.

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    2 months ago

    It’s really not a temporary problem. LLMs hallucinate by design, they’re just pattern recognition engines. They’re always going to be like this and we need to develop totally different tools for more rigorous tasks. This particular technology is a dead end, I think.

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      Exactly - LLMs by definition don’t know or understand the meaning of the words they’re saying. That technology can never yield something intelligent.