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Luis Von Ahn

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's animated in real time. I mean, we have a rig for her. Turns out we've bought these two animation studios in Detroit. This is why we have an office in Detroit. And they've done a really good job. So everything, her mouth moves just, you know, when she's speaking and it is tied to what she's saying. You know, she rolls her eyes at you, et cetera.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

I think it's both. We just see it as continuing to work on the app. I mean, there's a lot of places where we use a lot of animation, and we just see it as continuing to work on the app. And generally, as we continue working on the app, we both get more users and get more of them to pay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

I think it's both. We just see it as continuing to work on the app. I mean, there's a lot of places where we use a lot of animation, and we just see it as continuing to work on the app. And generally, as we continue working on the app, we both get more users and get more of them to pay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

I think it's both. We just see it as continuing to work on the app. I mean, there's a lot of places where we use a lot of animation, and we just see it as continuing to work on the app. And generally, as we continue working on the app, we both get more users and get more of them to pay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

I think for this feature, for this particular feature, I think it's just an excellent use of large language models. And I think it's, you know, on our end, it's working pretty well.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

I think for this feature, for this particular feature, I think it's just an excellent use of large language models. And I think it's, you know, on our end, it's working pretty well.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

I think for this feature, for this particular feature, I think it's just an excellent use of large language models. And I think it's, you know, on our end, it's working pretty well.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It is, basically. So some of the lessons in Duolingo, you know, the way Duolingo works is the home screen is basically a path. And you're just kind of doing lessons. Some of the lessons are now going to be this thing we call an adventure, which is really just like it is just like one of these video games where you move characters around.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It is, basically. So some of the lessons in Duolingo, you know, the way Duolingo works is the home screen is basically a path. And you're just kind of doing lessons. Some of the lessons are now going to be this thing we call an adventure, which is really just like it is just like one of these video games where you move characters around.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

It is, basically. So some of the lessons in Duolingo, you know, the way Duolingo works is the home screen is basically a path. And you're just kind of doing lessons. Some of the lessons are now going to be this thing we call an adventure, which is really just like it is just like one of these video games where you move characters around.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And what's cool about it is that you're learning how to solve kind of real world situations on Duolingo. So, for example, it's just like a little video game where, you know, you are one of the characters and you're told, OK, go buy a pizza.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And what's cool about it is that you're learning how to solve kind of real world situations on Duolingo. So, for example, it's just like a little video game where, you know, you are one of the characters and you're told, OK, go buy a pizza.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And what's cool about it is that you're learning how to solve kind of real world situations on Duolingo. So, for example, it's just like a little video game where, you know, you are one of the characters and you're told, OK, go buy a pizza.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

and you're like kind of move and uh have to ask around and you ask some people and then the people tell you all the pizza places over there etc so it's like it's super fun and uh it helps you learn kind of navigate the real world so yeah we've been working on that what's cool about that feature is most of the scenarios or all the scenarios were mostly generated by ai

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

and you're like kind of move and uh have to ask around and you ask some people and then the people tell you all the pizza places over there etc so it's like it's super fun and uh it helps you learn kind of navigate the real world so yeah we've been working on that what's cool about that feature is most of the scenarios or all the scenarios were mostly generated by ai

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

and you're like kind of move and uh have to ask around and you ask some people and then the people tell you all the pizza places over there etc so it's like it's super fun and uh it helps you learn kind of navigate the real world so yeah we've been working on that what's cool about that feature is most of the scenarios or all the scenarios were mostly generated by ai

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

That feature in the past would have taken a long time to scale, but we were able to scale it pretty quickly because of AI.