Perhaps they can make their ideas reality by learning the fundamentals required to do these things.

As much as I think AI is a productivity enhancer, I still think that it's beneficial for people who are still developing their brains.

Kids should be thinking for themselves, they barely know how to do it yet.

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vjulian 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s an excellent philosophy that ought be applied to your own child but not extended to others.

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NichoPaolucci 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not telling anyone how to raise their children, companies have terms of service. When we can't accurately assess risk, the default we reach for is an age minimum (social media, alcohol, driving).

If, in time, we find out that AI usage during developmental learning periods is a major positive, I'm sure they will give AI to 5 year olds, and I'm all for that.

Though, I have a sneaking suspicion it could be similar to kids with tablets. It encourages isolation, rewards addictive behavior, stunts personal growth, and enforces the concept of instant gratification.

	▲	vjulian 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is an unnecessary default and also generalizes AI to the point of being analytically not useful.

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win311fwg 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Perhaps they can make their ideas reality by learning the fundamentals required to do these things.

Unviable. Learning how to create the universe is provably an insurmountable challenge for the vast majority of people. They require higher level abstractions to be able to learn. Once they understand the high level abstraction they will learn some things about what lies beneath the abstraction, but it is ineffective to start with the low levels. Understanding the fundamentals is best left as an emergent property of the process, not the process itself.

The good news is that the high level abstractions we all used a couple of years ago do not require LLMs and are still widely available, so it is not like anyone is going to be left completely out in the cold, but at the same time denying the state of the art abstractions is needlessly limiting.