With the introduction of GPT-4 and Claude, the artificial intelligence (AI) has taken another big step forward. The GPT-4 capability is “human level” or better tackling many tough tasks, a big step up from GPT-3.5, which was released just a few months ago. Yet the debate over these advances has barely touched on one of the most profound effects of large AI language models: How will they reshape childhood?
In the futureevery middle-class child will grow up with a personalized artificial intelligence assistantas long as the parents agree with this dynamic.
As for the children, most will be willing and even enthusiastic. When she was four years old, my imaginary friend he lived under the refrigerator and was named (ironically) Bing Bing. I talked to him and conveyed his views to my parents and my sister.
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In the near future, these friends will be quite real, albeit automatedand they will respond to our children as directly as we wish. Having an AI service for your child will be as normal as having a pet, except that the AI service will never bite you. It will live on something akin to a tablet, albeit with an AI-oriented design.
Recent developments suggest that AI models can be more easily and cheaply commercialized and customized than anticipated. Therefore, the Parents will be able to choose what type of companion they want for their children, in contrast to the free internet service. Available services will likely include education and tutoring, text or vocalizations of what the family pet might be thinking, dancing cartoon avatars, and much more. Companies will compete to offer products that parents believe will be good for their children. Some AI offers they might even read stories before bedtime (in fact, I’ve already heard a few).
Many parents may be reluctant to let their children become attached to an AI. But I anticipate that most families will appreciate it. On the one hand, parents will be able to turn off the connection whenever they want. Simply, pressing a button is easier than taking the iPad away from a child.
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Above all, allow your child to have an AI companion will bring great advantages. Your son you will learn to read and write much faster and better, and will improve their performance in school. Or maybe you want your child to master another language, but you can’t afford an expensive tutor who only comes twice a week. Do you want your child to learn to read music? AI’s services will be as limited or broad as she wishes.
The open question is how quickly schools will adopt these new learning methods. At some point, however, will be part of the curriculum. Competitive pressures will make parents not want to hide AI from their children. Even if AI is not present in the classroom, some children will use it as a homework aid, to great advantage, and the practice is likely to spread.
Of course, children will use these artificial intelligences for purposes far beyond what their parents intended. They will become toys, companions, cheerleaders and much more.. When I was a child, without internet and a mediocre television service, I created imaginary worlds on the floor or with simple household items, and my parents often didn’t even know. AI services will become part of this spontaneous game model, even if parents seek to make them purely educational.
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What regarding teenagers? Well, many parents might allow their children to talk to AI therapists. It would be better than nothing, and perhaps better than many human therapists.
It is relatively easy to imagine the problems. Socially conservative parents will not be able to prevent their children from visiting friends whose AI systems teach regarding sex education. Many children might manipulate their AI services and make them talk regarding sex and violence, even in an educational context (eg Roman history). And while the rise of AI won’t necessarily increase inequality, it’s hard to argue that it won’t give rich and middle-class kids even more advantages.
But the biggest drawback might simply be that the AI services work very well and children become very attached to them, neglecting their friends and family. They can be such good babysitters that parents don’t always turn the service off when they should. They might be, in short, the 21st century version of television.
What will it be like to grow up with these kinds of companions? Nobody really knows. But a whole generation is regarding to find out.
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