‘Parenting Hits Different when You Work in AI’: A San Francisco Father Is Going Viral for Letting a Chatbot Read to His Baby
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San Francisco software engineer called ‘horrible father’ after he jokes about using AI to read bedtime stories to his newborn
An attempt at tech humor by a Silicon Valley engineer has sparked widespread online backlash, after a software engineer joked about training an artificial
‘Parenting hits different when you work in AI’: A San Francisco father is going viral for letting a chatbot read to his baby
According to a new San Francisco father, “parenting hits different when you work in AI.” Alvin Sng, a software engineer at AI company Factory, went viral for his AI-infused parenting technique—but not in a good way. In his since-deleted post, Sng said that when his wife asked him to read a book to their newborn baby, he replied, “I can just play an audiobook from my phone.” When she objected that the story wouldn’t be in his voice, Sng said he …
California tech bro blasted as ‘horrible’ dad for using bot to read to his newborn baby: ‘Bleak’
A San Francisco-based AI software engineer's social media post is sparking backlash after he suggested training a voice language model to read to his newborn child.
AI-Obsessed Dad Proposes Using an AI Voice Model to Read to his 3 Day Old Son Instead of Doing it Himself: 'Parenting hits different when you work in AI.'
Why would he want to do that?When AI first hit the scene, I was suspicious because I had seen my fair share of movies and TV shows about robots taking over the world. It seemed like everyone else was pretty gullible to be so enthralled by a technology that we've been warned against for so many years. The movie Her warned us of a future where lonely men fell in love with AI voices instead of real human women. That was a pretty prescient predictio…
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