Kids go from curious to frustrated playing with AI-stuffed toys, UW study finds
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#12ai is not the proper way to explore the world for kids
some might argue it is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
I enjoyed The Diamond Age but the 'AI' is nothing like today's. The stories in Nell's primer are actually mediated by a human actor (not an AI), who becomes a mother figure for her.
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#14> “I think it’s gonna destroy my dreams as a tiny kid,” another said.
The child is talking about themselves in the third person? That's a little weird.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
some might argue it is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
I enjoyed The Diamond Age but the 'AI' is nothing like today's. The stories in Nell's primer are actually mediated by a human actor (not an AI), who becomes a mother figure for her.
It even goes so far as to call out the ones who were interfacing with AI as disadvantaged and manipulation of the advanced AI developed for the Chinese orphans led to the creation of the mouse army who were categorically trained to worship specific people as their leader which they otherwise had never known.
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#17With an imagination a toy can say anything to a child. With AI I guess not.