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Helping your child navigate the world is the only remaining thing that makes you human.

And you can already ask models to help you become better at it.

It's like a (subset of a) generation of parents having youtube raise their kids. But it's probably an improvement over that!

It's actually a really interesting question to reckon with - can an AI help raise a child and is that good or bad? I suspect there are ways you can use the current frontier that elevate the child's experience, especially when it comes to education and creative play. On the flipside using one of these models to automate storytelling to your 3 year old is probably a bad idea... The tricky bit is where to draw the line? Is using an LLM to collaboratively build a story alongside the parent and the child bad? I don't know, I suspect not, but that is not a simple question to answer.

I haven't watched, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_... seems to be exactly about this.

It all comes down to whether you see time and attention spent with your kids as a nuisance or the best time you can ever have in your lifetime (I am team B).

And as every child psychologist says, "attention is all you need" :).

Well there is an upper bound of how much time you have available to spend with your child and how you spend that time. You could use an LLM when you can't be there (I suspect this is a bad idea), or you can use it collaboratively with your child (I suspect this is a good idea). I see it as similar to using a phone; your child on wikipedia is a different thing to your child on tiktok.

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