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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Duolingo's new eyerolling emo chatbot Lily briefly replaces CEO on investor call to showcase its AI technology

Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo

Duolingo found an innovative way to inform investors up on their efforts embedding artificial intelligence as an online educational tool for learning foreign languages.

During its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, the company had a generative AI chatbot named “Lily” briefly step in for CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn to summarize the results in a quick video that allegedly took just seven minutes to create. It was meant as a demonstration of a new product that lets users practice speaking with what it calls a “sassy” conversational partner in an unscripted and impromptu manner to build confidence speaking in another tongue.

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