You can make up your own stories for your children and tell them to them, or you can have an artificial intelligence write them down. Austrian Peter Rechter, who works full-time at cloud giant Oracle in Vienna, quickly implemented the latter. Lui used the currently hugely popular AI tool ChatGPT and AI image Dall-E (both by OpenAI) to create short stories for his lui platform Tech fairy tales create. Their goal: They should show children that they can’t just use technology as consumers, but can actively use it to design.
And so, in just a few days, funny stories were created about Anna and her coded adventures, the boy Andy in the Metaverse or analogies with the real world in the form of a certain Jeffs in the Amazon or about Elon and his “Neuralink”. “The idea came to me through my daughter, who is just 17 months old. We want to incorporate technology into education in a playful way as soon as possible,” says Rechter on Trending Topics. “All fairytale stories are created with ChatGPT AI.”
It went pretty quickly – he would have the project and content ready to go in 3 evenings. ChatGPT does not write children’s fairy tales fully automatically and at the push of a button it still needs creativity and human help. “You have to think about the texture, what information you want to enter and then direct the AI, for example if you want to add details,” says Rechter. He would need about 40 minutes for a fairy tale including translation.
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Without any programming knowledge
“The goal is for parents to be able to playfully bring technology to their children through fairy tales. Children should not only be educated to be consumers of technology, they should also learn to use it productively,” says the Austrian. He would have bought many children’s books, but none would have lived up to his claim to give young people their first glimpse into the world of technology.That’s why he decided without further ado to implement the tales with the help of AI.
In addition to the texts, he also had the images (see above) created by an artificial intelligence, namely Dall-E – he then built the website himself with a website builder. “I’m very interested in technology, but I’m not a programmer. The technology can already be used by the average consumer. ChatGPT is just the tip of the iceberg, in two years there will be AIs creating other AIs,” he says. ChatGPT is still free to use. “But I assume this will only be the case for a certain period of the beta phase.”
Now it’s about getting as many parents excited about the idea and the stories as possible. The project can have a learning effect not only for children, but also for adults, i.e. how you can now work with AI without any programming knowledge.
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