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The Wall Street Journal reports:
As a new generation grows up surrounded by artificial intelligence, researchers find education as early as preschool can help avoid confusion about robots' role
If you want your preschooler to grow up with a healthy attitude toward artificial intelligence, here's a tip: Don't call that cute talking robot 'he' or 'she.'
Call the robot 'it.'
Today's small children, aka Generation Alpha, are the first to grow up with robots as peers. Those winsome talking devices spawned by a booming education-tech industry can speed children's learning, but they also can be confusing to them, research shows. Many children think robots are smarter than humans or imbue them with magical powers.
The long-term consequences of growing up surrounded by AI-driven devices won't be clear for a while. But an expanding body of research is lending new impetus to efforts to expand technology education beyond learning to code, to understanding how AI works. Children need help drawing boundaries between themselves and the technology, and gaining confidence in their own ability to control and master it, researchers say."
[...] How to Raise an AI-Savvy Child
* Use the pronoun "it" when referring to a robot.
* Display a positive attitude toward the beneficial effects of AI.
* Encourage your child to explore how robots are built.
* Explain that humans are the source of AI-driven devices' intelligence.
* Guard against AI-propelled toys that presume too much, such as claiming to be your child's best friend.
* Invite children to consider the ethics of AI design, such as how a bot should behave after winning a game.
* Encourage skepticism about information received from smart toys and devices.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kanweg on Thursday August 29 2019, @08:16PM (3 children)
"Explain that humans are the source of AI-driven devices' intelligence."
Reminds me of the trope: But a computer can never make a beautiful painting like Rembrandt's Nightguard.
Uhm, you know what? I can't do that either.
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(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Friday August 30 2019, @02:07AM (2 children)
When that trope was originally written, it couldn't. Today is very very different. AIs can generate images and musical compositions as good as or better than humans. Mathematical proofs and chemical synthesis are in the AIs purview too. Literature is putting up a good fight, but AI is already doing short pieces.
The number of things a computer can't do is getting smaller as a function of time. Lets be nice to the clever machines made by clever monkeys.
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Friday August 30 2019, @08:27AM (1 child)
Except the AIs dont have anything they want to say. No experience they want to share.
They mimic art the way a parrot mimics speech. Fancy algorithms that extract patterns from existing art and reflect some combination of them back may produce a pleasant result but there is nothing innovative or original. If it randomly juxtaposes things that people respond to that's just a happy accident.
On the one hand art is in the eye of the beholder. But on the other the artist should have something to say.
Machine art satisfies just the former.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 30 2019, @12:54PM
I agree with neither of you.
A big part in some art production isn't in creation but in filtering. An idea sparks up and you don't follow up on it because it has no place in what you are doing. So you look for a better one. Writers weed out unnecessary phrases, musicians remove a part or a section, painters simplify and stylize.
So, the origin of the stuff to filter is irrelevant. Can come from AI. And AI can filter. What happens next is that the audience filters too. It is not a given that human filtering is better or worse, but the fruition is ultimately human, so they have the last word nonetheless. AI can generate a 5 levels pun in three languages but if I don't get any of the references, the joke will suck.
Unless you convince us bots to buy stuff, that is.
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