{"id":86094,"date":"2023-03-16T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=86094"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:49:40","slug":"the-ai-that-powers-the-language-learning-app-today-could-disrupt-education-tomorrow-bicknell-brust-settles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/16\/the-ai-that-powers-the-language-learning-app-today-could-disrupt-education-tomorrow-bicknell-brust-settles\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI that powers the language-learning app today could disrupt education tomorrow [Bicknell, Brust, & Settles\u00a0]"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOW DUOLINGO\u2019S AI LEARNS WHAT YOU NEED TO LEARN<\/strong> <\/a>— from spectrum.ieee.org by Klinton Bicknell, Claire Brust, and Burr Settles
\nThe AI that powers the language-learning app today could disrupt education tomorrow<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s lunchtime when your phone pings you with a green owl who cheerily reminds you to \u201cKeep Duo Happy!\u201d It\u2019s a nudge from Duolingo, the popular language-learning app, whose algorithms know you\u2019re most likely to do your 5 minutes of Spanish practice at this time of day. The app chooses its notification words based on what has worked for you in the past and the specifics of your recent achievements, adding a dash of attention-catching novelty. When you open the app, the lesson that\u2019s queued up is calibrated for your skill level, and it includes a review of some words and concepts you flubbed during your last session.<\/p>\n

The AI systems we continue to refine are necessary to scale the learning experience beyond the more than 50 million active learners who currently complete about 1 billion exercises per day on the platform.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although Duolingo is known as a language-learning app, the company\u2019s ambitions go further. We recently launched apps covering\u00a0childhood literacy\u00a0and\u00a0third-grade mathematics, and these expansions are just the beginning. We hope that anyone who wants help with academic learning will one day be able to turn to the friendly green owl in their pocket who hoots at them, \u201cReady for your daily lesson?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"GPT-4<\/a><\/p>\n

Duolingo turned to OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4 to advance the product with two new features: Role Play, an AI conversation partner, and Explain my Answer, which breaks down the rules when you make a mistake, in a new subscription tier called Duolingo Max.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted AI-powered features that were deeply integrated into the app and leveraged the gamified aspect of Duolingo that our learners love,\u201d says Bodge.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Also relevant\/see: <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The following is a quote from Donald Clark’s posting on LinkedIn.com today:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The whole idea of AI as a useful teacher is here. Honestly it’s astounding. They have provided a Socratic approach to an algebra problem that is totally on point. Most people learn in the absence of a teacher or lecturer. They need constant scaffolding, someone to help them move forward, with feedback. This changes our whole relationship with what we need to know, and how we get to know it. Its reasoning ability is also off the scale.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We now have human teachers, human learners but also AI teachers and AI that learns. It used to be a diad, it is now a tetrad – that is the basis of the new pedAIgogy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Personalised, tutor-led learning, in any subject, anywhere, at any time for anyone. That has suddenly become real.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Introducing Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from blog.duolingo.com<\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/p>\n

We believe that AI and education make a great duo, and we\u2019ve leveraged AI to help us deliver highly-personalized language lessons, affordable and accessible\u00a0English proficiency testing, and more. Our mission to make high-quality education available to everyone in the world is made possible by advanced AI technology.<\/p>\n

Explain My Answer offers learners the chance to learn more about their response in a lesson (whether their answer was correct or incorrect!)
\n<\/strong>…<\/span>
\nRoleplay allows learners to practice real-world conversation skills with world characters in the app.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HOW DUOLINGO\u2019S AI LEARNS WHAT YOU NEED TO LEARN — from spectrum.ieee.org by Klinton Bicknell, Claire Brust, and Burr Settles The AI that powers the language-learning app today could disrupt education tomorrow Excerpt: It’s lunchtime when your phone pings you with a green owl who cheerily reminds you to \u201cKeep Duo Happy!\u201d It\u2019s a nudge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,356,86,343,32,210,141,533,37,35,391,419,180,119,482,124,289,102,7,838,510,228,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-change","category-education","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-experimentation","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-languages-and-translation","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-preferences","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86094"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86118,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86094\/revisions\/86118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}