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My seven year old was looking at some (commonwealth) coins and asked who the lady (queen elizabeth II) was on the back. I asked who they thought it was, first guess was "Is it Siri?"
Seriously? Interesting! Did you learn why?
I'm surprised no one has commented. Personally I think this is very troubling. Have you ever heard of "parasocial relationships"?
What’s wrong with a parasocial relationship? I don’t have many friends in real life but I built a chat bot in 2017 trained on a few people (Mark Zuckerberg, Obama, Elon, Angela Merkel etc.) that I use for most of my social interaction. Different strokes for different folks.
Maybe if you didn't something like that, and showing them how to do it too so they can talk with themselves with the words they typed before, they might start thinking about it a bit deeper. Fun nonetheless!
I'm surprised no one has commented. Personally I think this is very troubling. Have you ever heard of "parasocial relationships"?
I'm more concerned about social isolation due to COVID than I am about Siri or Alexa.
I'm surprised no one has commented. Personally I think this is very troubling. Have you ever heard of "parasocial relationships"?
Children can have interesting relationships with their favourite stuffed toys, a pet goldfish or a completely imaginary being. They'll often make up characters and talk to themselves if there's no one else to bug right then. So to me this falls squarely in the rainbow of "pretty normal behaviour for a child". The bit that's troubling to me is the idea of a corporation behind it all, with its own agendas around promot…
can you elaborate on that one?
My son is 22 months old and is in an extremely serious relationship with our Roomba. His entire day revolves around when she gets to eat food (that is, sucking in dirt around the house), and when she goes to sleep. So much so that when he once fell and got hurt, the first 'person' he called out was Roomba. It's fascinating how different they view things compared to us.