Here's another application designed to use AI to interact with young people. "The narrative isn't about giving lonely kids an AI to be friends with," said Qu. "It's more about helping the kids learn about what they're interested in learning about. We also want kids to develop interests in certain things, so we use their favorite character to help them cultivate that interest or teach them something in a way that doesn't feel like teaching." Again, we might raise ethical or practical considerations, but if it works we need to rethink our attitudes. The question isn't "is something like this the best possible solution" for a young person, the question is "is this better than nothing?" Because my focus, at least, is on the many many children who have nothing. Via Doug Levin.
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