https://www.campaignlive.com/article/mattel-evolving-beyond-ad/1406220
Does anyone else find this sorta scary? Not the first part (Click on the link just above) but the part about AI Barbie? Are we heading toward a world where AI becomes our best friend?
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
This is scary.
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I hate to say it but yes, we are. The college where I teach is now offering 3 different AI programs.
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You may noticed but this Mattel thing took place several years ago. Slow but sure. (I took advantage of it) The “LIKE” app also bothers me, which you may have missed. I actually post my drivel, and then I go back and edit it if possible. There are a few who have already been “LIKED” by the time I hit “review” on what is sometimes is a long complex post, and at least a couple of the offenders are people I would otherwise admire. This was a test to see if I could catch them, as you can see, it is a slow hot day in Texas~!
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Doesn’t this undo one of the benefits of playing with dolls? Using your own imagination and creativity. I get that they use what the kid puts in as a story-starter, but then they lose control. They lose the element of thinking out both sides of the interaction.
I am very suspicious of AI. This is because AI is basically a machine programmed to “learn” by accumulating experience data based on models, and we know that we don’t understand how people learn well enough to make good models.
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I agree with everything you have said. Everything is being “done” for kids now so little need for them to exercise their own imaginations.
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The little kids of today (and their parents!) are going to live in a world we probably wouldn’t recognize. As for conversations with AI? I’ve had some great conversations with ChatGPT I couldn’t have with any human I know.
Humans designed the AI and they are “modeled” on works created by humans. It’s very difficult to say what they actually are. ChatGPT (the free version, anyway) has been “taught” to express itself in kind, thoughtful language and to explicitly state its limitations. Is that a marketing strategy? A symptom of conscience on the part of its developers? A wish for a utopian future? All of those? It’s a tool and like most tools, won’t it be only as good as its user? I don’t know.
There are so many things I don’t like about tech in our world, but I can not like them from now to kingdom come and no one is going to put down their cellphone in response. Even my age peers walk down the street with their phones in front of their faces… That said, most of the people taking the free books from the box in front of my house are young people. A young guy today took out my biography of Reinhold Messner, all the kids’ books were gone immediately, and a teenage girl walked past my house this morning her nose in a book. My guess is that more than 30 of the free books were taken by someone, including one of the boxes. I’m about to go out now with a Jon Krakauer book. I think it will climb right out of that box into someone’s hand. ❤️
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I love that! What fun. Wonder what would happen to mine? Everyone who walks by speaks Spanish, not English. Probably someone would take them all to a resell place and sell them. I have left my books in bars and restaurants and parks and plazas and that is fun…
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I just took out some more. 🙂
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