Kids cartoon characters that use AI to customize responses help children learn

Photo caption: AI characters can ask kids a question and then customize a response to each child’s unique answer. Photo credit: Romrodinka / iStock / Getty Images Plus. Article by Ying Xu. The Conversation – May 1, 2023.

The big idea

When the main character of a kids TV show can both listen and respond to viewers by using advances in artificial intelligence, youngsters learn more from the program. That’s what my colleagues and I found in a series of peer-reviewed studies. We are partnering with PBS Kids to incorporate conversational AI like Siri or Alexa into a popular science show for preschool-aged children called “Elinor Wonders Why.” […]

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