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A 4-Year-Old Meets ChatGPT: Here’s What Was Shocking! 😳
How a child’s innocent curiosity unveiled the profound impact of conversational AI.
Introduction
Few days back, I had an experience that left me awestruck. My four-year-old niece, barely old enough to read fluently, engaged with an advanced AI language model, ChatGPT, in a way I hadn’t anticipated. What started as a casual experiment turned into a glimpse of what the future of human-AI interaction could look like.
This article recounts that fascinating moment, exploring the profound implications of AI’s accessibility and its role in shaping young minds.
The Experience Begins
It began innocently enough. I handed my smartphone to my niece and introduced her to the ChatGPT app, complete with its real-time audio feature that uses Whisper, an open-source speech recognition system, to transcribe spoken words into text, Anyways those were just some technicalities. “This is ChatGPT,” I told her. “He knows everything and you can talk to him like a friend.”
