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Episode 66

Slop Social

Duolingo is "AI First", Prompt Engineer fades, secret Reddit experiment, and more!

AI Inside · Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

April 30, 20251h 1m

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Show Notes

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI, OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT in a challenge to Google, researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments, and so much more on the AI Inside podcast!


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CHAPTERS:

03:15 - Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

12:36 - ⁠Duolingo More Than Doubles Courses as ‘AI-First’ Push Draws Heat⁠

15:07 - Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons

16:09 - Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists

22:53 - Prompt engineer: The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

28:10 - Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI

37:45 - Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

39:53 - Altman and Nadella, Who Ignited the Modern AI Boom Together, Are Drifting Apart

41:21 - OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google

42:58 - Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments

47:53 - Clip from our Interview with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, authors of The AI Con

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