The First AI-Powered Storytelling Teddy Bear Is Here. I Gave It to My Kids to Test
It was bound to happen but you can’t say we haven’t been warned. Media portrayals of AI in children’s toys rarely ends well.
Poe is a ChatGPT powered teddy bear that tells stories.
Bridget Carey of CNET got to test out Poe with her own children. Learn more about Poe and get some hands on reviews:
After listening to few stories, I could tell sometimes my kids were having a hard time picking up on everything that was happening, but they did want to keep creating stories, eventually treating it like a game to see what they could make the bear say. (And cram everything possible into a story to be silly.)
To me, the stories it generates exist in a literary uncanny valley, with stories taking random turns to fit all the parameters of the prompt. It was sometimes difficult to follow every line of a story when the vocabulary felt out of place for a children’s story, like the ChatGPT AI was overusing a thesaurus.
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