I’m starting to see the adverse effects of AI on #duolingo. I’m studying chess and the exercises are wrong more and more often. Telling me the wrong choice when I’m promoting a pawn, telling me that I just made a pawn sacrifice when I didn’t, telling me to take materiel instead of mate, then congratulating me when I go for the mate.
It’s just weird. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s like having a teacher who randomly lies to you and then goes on like it didn’t happen.
Joshua A.C. Newman
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