{"id":17935,"date":"2025-03-01T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T12:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/i-want-him-to-be-prepared-why-parents-are-teaching-their-gen-alpha-kids-to-use-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T13:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T12:37:41","slug":"i-want-him-to-be-prepared-why-parents-are-teaching-their-gen-alpha-kids-to-use-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/i-want-him-to-be-prepared-why-parents-are-teaching-their-gen-alpha-kids-to-use-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I want him to be prepared\u2019: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond<\/p>\n<p>Jules White used to believe his 11-year-old son needed to know how to code to be successful. Now, though, the Vanderbilt computer science professor says it\u2019s more crucial for James to learn a new, more useful skill: how to prompt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/chatbots\">chatbots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/chatgpt\">ChatGPT<\/a> in 2022, White has been showing his son the ropes of generative AI. He began by demonstrating to James how ChatGPT can create games using photos of toys on the floor of their house. Later, White exposed him to AI\u2019s hallucinatory flaws by having his son debunk ChatGPT-generated world record claims with verified information from the Guinness Book of World Records. After more than two years of experimentation, White\u2019s son, now in fifth grade, has learned how to integrate AI into a range of everyday activities, from crafting study materials to determining the cost of shoes without a price tag.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/01\/parents-children-artificial-intelligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0c0074c5028b5e4a8cc81330ada8f2edfd25d9e8\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3ed3efc22b3ba1b0f49c523be6a4c93c\" title=\"\u2018I want him to be prepared\u2019: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI\" \/>As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond<br \/>\nJules White used to believe his 11-year-old son needed to know how to code to be successful. Now, though, the Vanderbilt computer science professor says it\u2019s more crucial for James to learn a new, more useful skill: how to prompt artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.<br \/>\nSince OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, White has been showing his son the ropes of generative AI. He began by demonstrating to James how ChatGPT can create games using photos of toys on the floor of their house. Later, White exposed him to AI\u2019s hallucinatory flaws by having his son debunk ChatGPT-generated world record claims with verified information from the Guinness Book of World Records. After more than two years of experimentation, White\u2019s son, now in fifth grade, has learned how to integrate AI into a range of everyday activities, from crafting study materials to determining the cost of shoes without a price tag. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond Jules White used to believe his 11-year-old son needed to know how to code to be successful. Now, though, the Vanderbilt computer science professor says it\u2019s more crucial for James to learn a new, more useful &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/i-want-him-to-be-prepared-why-parents-are-teaching-their-gen-alpha-kids-to-use-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I want him to be prepared\u2019: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}