‘My son genuinely believed it was actual’: Mother and father are letting little children play with AI. Are they incorrect? | Synthetic intelligence (AI)

Josh was on the finish of his rope when he turned to ChatGPT for assist with a parenting quandary. The 40-year-old father of two had been listening to his “tremendous loquacious” four-year-old speak about Thomas the Tank Engine for 45 minutes, and he was feeling overwhelmed.

“He was not completed telling the story that he needed to inform, and I wanted to do my chores, so I let him have the cellphone,” recalled Josh, who lives in north-west Ohio. “I assumed he would end the story and the cellphone would flip off.”