People are just noticing the genius Amazon Alexa trick parents should know about

PARENTS with an Amazon Alexa are sitting on a time-saving gold mine.

Though it will never replace the original, parents can program their smart home device to tell their kids a bedtime story.

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Amazon smuggled in a new feature called Create with Alexa last year.

The feature harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI).

It’s called Generative AI, which uses prompts to weave new and bespoke children’s fantasy stories.

But parents can also participate.

The technology allows kids and parents to choose from themes offered by Amazon such as Underwater, Enchantment, Forest and Space Exploration.

Families can then choose a character, descriptive word, and color that will inspire the AI ​​to tell a unique story every time.

The stories are fleshed out with background music and audio dialogue generated by the Alexa device.

The technology was designed with kids in mind, an Amazon executive said when the feature was first announced.

The feature has three key safeguards, such as: B. Content filtering, training the AI ​​on a dataset free of toxic content, and setting up a structured and constrained experience.

It is important to create a boundary that the AI ​​cannot cross.

This means that the AI ​​cannot unwind a story that is not suitable for children.

Eshan Bhatnagar, product lead for Alexa AI at Amazon, said: “We wanted to avoid the garbage-in-garbage-out tendency of AI.

“We are cautious and conservative in our approach to how we want to make some of the generative capabilities available to our customers.”

However, a to learn from the University of Washington, last year, titled “Hey Google, is it okay if I eat you?

Children who use AI devices frequently may begin to view them as omniscient authority figures, the study warned.

Helping kids understand what’s going on under the hood is key to preventing them from trusting AI wholeheartedly.

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