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For all their hype, chatbots kind of suck right now. Not necessarily because they’re fundamentally bad, but because it’s often apparent a good old app or website is more convenient and reliable. But thanks to Duolingo, we might finally have chatbots that make sense. The company is today launching a set of language ‘tutors’ that in its iOS app that help learners engage in conversation without the pressure or expense of an actual human being. There are many immediately obvious benefits. Duolingo is already pretty great, but it lacked the personal element afforded by having conversations with a real life…

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