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Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

582 points · 128 comments · supermdguy

  1. carsoon · · focus · HN ↗
    This is a very interesting news/story format. Honestly it is highly engaging and gets the point across about what happened.

    I think speed of learning for young generation can explode given this tech as "simple childrens stories" can be injected with real world events, history, mathematics, carreer/business interests.

    School was dreadfully boring for me even though it was quite easy but I do wonder how my speed of learning would have been different given personalized and more engaging materials.

    1. apsurd · · focus · HN ↗
      i got a few pages in and it was pretty tedious, not because it’s poorly made but because i don’t think a legitimate audience exists.

      it’s a child’s story with the fable arc thats supposed to bake in adult wisdom. it lands in that sense, but how hugging face works is hardly the fire that lights a child’s imagination and morality.

      and as an adult that knows I’m being infantilized… tedious.

      1. jefftk · · focus · HN ↗
        I read it to my 5yo and 10yo and they enjoyed it. It was helpful for explaining how my wife and I have been worried about what's happening with AI.

        My 5yo asked partway through "will it be ok?" which is perhaps a deeper question than they thought.

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