#creativity
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- Merlin Bird ID gives your child an ear for birdsong
Merlin names birds from their song in seconds, and radar counts a billion more overhead at night. Two ways AI makes a child's world louder and bigger.
- Teachable Machine lets your child train an AI, then fool it
A Google tool lets a child train a working AI model in ten minutes with a webcam. The real fun starts when they work out how to fool the thing they built.
- NASA's volunteers found 3,000 brown dwarfs. Kids can help too
NASA volunteers doubled the known count of brown dwarfs by spotting dots that moved. Here is the citizen science your child can join tonight.
- The chess bot that plays like a kid, not a supercomputer
India's chess boom put an engine in every child's pocket. The research says the bot that helps a child most is the one that plays at their level.
- Kids given AI still reached for the crayons
Researchers in Scotland gave 40 children generative AI for three days. Given a free choice for creative work, they preferred the craft table.
- Roblox Build lets kids make a game by typing one line
Roblox Build turns a typed sentence into a playable game, and kids in New Zealand got it first. Here is what it actually changes for a child.
- Beijing's robot games, and the joy of watching them fall
Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games opens next week. The falling over is the best part, and the most useful thing a child can watch.
- ChatGPT makes Ghibli-style art in seconds. Teach this first
Your child wants a Ghibli-style AI picture. Japan spent a year arguing about that exact request, and it hands parents a clearer thing to teach.
- India's kids are making things with AI, not just asking it
A global youth AI challenge, free creative tools in 15,000 schools, folklore films. In India the fun part of AI for kids is building something.
- AI is learning animal languages, and your child can join in
Zebra finch calls, dolphin whistles, birdsong in the park: how AI is decoding animal communication, and what your child can hear this weekend.
- Asia's AI contests for kids ask to see the first prompt
Japan, Korea and Singapore are handing children AI as a making tool, and the smartest contests ask to see the first prompt, not the finished picture.
- What kids built with AI this summer: drones, art and a $120 sensor
American students spent a festival weekend at MIT showing what kids built with AI: rescue drones, art and water sensors. What parents can borrow from it.
