Duolingo

You most likely know Duolingo as an app you can fire up when you want to learn a new language or at least familiarize yourself with the local tongue of a place you're visiting. It has ventured into other subject matters over the years, though, and now it looks like the company is also hoping to be the one people turn to when they want to learn about music. According to a job posting (seen by TechCrunch), Duolingo has a small team that's currently working to build an app for teaching music.  The job ad is for an "expert in…

GPT 4 used in Khan Academy and Duolingo to enhance their AI learning platforms A language model called GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4) was created by the San Francisco-based research facility OpenAI. The GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) series of language models, now in their fourth version, are at their most sophisticated. With a prompt, the AI model GPT-4 can produce text that resembles that of a person. In comparison to earlier language models, it is capable of comprehending context, identifying…

Image: Tricky_Shark (Shutterstock)Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm that has partnered with OpenAI to help leverage ChatGPT and other OpenAI products in the business space. Bain & Company’s first target for its new AI-powered workflow is Coca-Cola, though both parties are being incredibly vague on what that collaboration might look like.“We are excited to unleash the next generation of creativity offered by this rapidly emerging technology,” said James Quincey, chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola…

DuolingoWith this feature, users will be able to chat with Duo after picking the wrong answer. Through the chat, users can ask Duo further clarification on why the answer was wrong and more examples to explain the topic further. Essentially, with this feature, you will have a tutor to chat with you and walk you through your mistakes at all times. The Roleplay feature allows learners to practice chatting in the language they are learning with someone, except that that someone is actually AI. No two conversations are…

Duolingo has announced the launch of new AI-driven language learning features. The newly launched AI-powered language learner is being called Duolingo Max, and is powered by OpenAI's latest multimodal large language generative text model, GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4). Successor to GPT-3, GPT-4 is a hybrid training system trained with around 100 trillion parameters to provide accurate and elaborate answers to questions in a conversational way. Duolingo's new features are claimed to…

OpenAI, the folks behind the ludicrously popular ChatGPT and DALL-E, has near-single handedly strangled the entire tech world in the grip of AI. Now the company has a new version of its AI language generator that, at least on paper, seems purpose built to upend multiple industries even beyond the tech space.On Tuesday, the company unveiled GPT-4, an update to its advanced AI system that’s meant to generate natural-sounding language in response to user input. The company claimed GPT-4 is more accurate and more capable of…

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Duolingo Math is now available on iOS, over a year since it was first teased. Naturally, the new math app feels a lot like the company’s language app, including colorful animations and interactive exercises all built into gamified lessons. There are two main components to the app: an elementary-level math curriculum that goes over classroom topics and a brain-training course aimed at adults, with a focus on improving mental math skills. Dr. Kawashima has a lot to answer for. For those anxious about their math skills, it…

Duolingo’s social media strategy is the capitalist equivalent of “I’m not like most girls.”Image: Konstantin Savusia (Shutterstock)In the digital space, corporations and companies are faced with the dilemma of creating a social media presence that people actually engage with. Recently, Duolingo has emerged as a success story of how to wrap the entirety of social media around its finger, but a recent tweet may be a sign that the brand needs to peel back on the edgelord meme humor.The tweet in question features a clip from…

Duolingo’s long-awaited new math app is being unveiled—in beta—at the company’s annual Duocon conference Friday.Duolingo Math, which already has a waitlist for its beta testing on iOS devices, uses the same game-like interface as its oft-memed language-learning app to teach and test elementary-level math concepts like multiplication, division, fractions, basic geometry, and reading an analog clock.Samantha Siegel, a senior software engineer at Duolingo who heads the team behind the app and is presenting the beta edition…