Artificial intelligence is on fire, and parents are panicking
Recently, artificial intelligence has exploded, and everyone around me has seen the power of artificial intelligence through ChatGPT software.
This is the state of ChatGPT when talking to people.
Not only can the answers flow and clear thinking, but you can even write poetry and novels.
This is the drawing drawn by the AI painting tool Midjourney.
Its color matching and the delicate degree of the picture can already be compared with professional designers.
"Space Opera" by Midjourney
Artificial intelligence technology exploded. Design, architecture, programming, and all walks of life have been impacted by AI.
At the Artificial Intelligence Big Model Development Forum last month, Kai-Fu Lee said in public:
"AI has entered the 2.0 era, this wave of technological revolution, will be 10 times larger than the mobile Internet, all applications will be rewritten, is a revolution that cannot be missed."
In the face of the arrival of the wave of artificial intelligence, some people are amazed, and some people are excited.
But there is a mother in the author's circle of friends who can't sit still, and she sighed after seeing the "great power" of AI:
Now artificial intelligence is developing so fast, it seems that the upper knows astronomy and the lower knows the geography.
But my third-grade son was still using the rote memorization of test-taking education when he was studying.
Children cannot be exposed to trendy technology, in case artificial intelligence makes great progress in the education industry in the future, can children adapt to the changes of the times?
This mother's concern is not unreasonable, and to some extent very forward-looking.
Last month, there was such a news in the field of artificial intelligence, which attracted the attention of this author.
At the press conference of iFLYTEK Spark Cognitive Large Model on May 6, Taoyun Technology, a subsidiary of iFLYTEK, launched the first children's cognitive large model in China - Alpha Egg Children's Cognitive Large Model.
It brings a new interactive experience for children in the aspects of practicing expression, shaping emotional intelligence, initiating creativity, and helping learning.
I believe that many parents will have the same feelings as the author when they hear this news——
As the parents of the post-80s and post-90s, the first time we witnessed the wind of the times was when the Internet was just emerging.
And now, our children, as the new force of the future of the country, they are about to grow up in an era where artificial intelligence technology is taking off.
The wave of artificial intelligence is what we are facing and what our children will face.
What opportunities and challenges await them?
Don't believe that AI can already help you "bring a baby"
In fact, artificial intelligence in the field of children's education is even ahead of our imagination.
Take the most basic parent-child companionship.
The author has held offline parties with many parents and parents, as a parent who has to take care of both work and children's growth in the fast-paced life of the 21st century.
The pain point that everyone has always had is - no time.
After a day of work, I had to talk to customers outside.
When I got home, the child asked me to chat with him, and I really didn't want to say a word.
@张子祥, 40-year-old dad, sales
As a stay-at-home mom, everyone thinks I should spend a lot of time with my kids.
But at home, I have to wash and buy, big things and small things, the old man has to take care of headaches and brain fever.
When reading stories to children at night, often the children did not sleep, and I was sleepy first.
@李娟, 37-year-old stay-at-home mom
Too busy at work, riddled with housework, lack of skills... These long-standing pain points of parents were solved by artificial intelligence as early as 2009.
That year, the industry launched an offline intelligent voice interactive toy - Magic Croak. It can download as many stories as you want, so kids no longer have to pester their parents to read them.
At the 2010 World Expo, Taoyun Technology, the manufacturer behind this toy, provided intelligent solutions for the Shanghai World Expo mascot Hypertherm, and launched Hypertherm Voice Dr. Xiao, which was rated by CCTV as "the most high-tech product in the World Expo".
It can be said that since then, artificial intelligence has empowered the attribute of "fun interaction" to toy products.
With the liberalization of fertility policies and the upgrading of consumerism, artificial intelligence has encountered new topics in the field of children's education——
How to let parents better participate in and understand the growth of their children in intelligent companionship?
How to develop more high-quality products to help parents accompany their children's learning and growth in more scenarios?
How to help children keep up with the wave of AI and collide with AI to create more sparks?
The wave of AI is coming, and many parents and children are also concerned about these three major issues.
Professional things have to be done by professional people.
Taoyun Technology, a cutting-edge technology company in the field of artificial intelligence, is looking for new solutions to these problems.
No matter how powerful artificial intelligence is, it will be "stumped" by children
In the field of artificial intelligence, if you think that robots that can understand the words of adults, understanding children's words is a piece of cake, you are very wrong.
For robots, children's babbling words and wild thinking are the most difficult to understand.
Before the launch of the alpha egg product brand, Taoyun Technology found that there were individual products that "parents shouted and they should not".
The child did not respond when interacting with the robot and cried with sadness.
So how to make AI communicate smoothly with children?
Due to the incomplete development of children's vocal cords, if the robot uses the common technology of communicating with adults to communicate with children, it is difficult for the two sides to have a smooth conversation.
By studying the physiological and psychological characteristics of children's pronunciation and deeply optimizing algorithms and models, Alpha Egg products have achieved the best core technologies such as children's voice recognition and children's voice synthesis.
After the birth of the Alpha Egg Children's Cognitive Model, the core technology of children's semantic understanding has ushered in a qualitative leap, and now machines can better understand children's language and generate logical content.
In this way, the problem is solved.
However, wave after wave, at that time, education experts poured cold water on it:
Your technology is indeed good, but I am worried that it will become a tool for parents to "lazy".
If you let the product replace the company of parents and make the parent-child relationship disappear, it will affect the child's life.
This sentence made Alpha Egg begin to rethink the meaning of "intelligent companionship", and also planted awe for the theory of science education in their hearts.
Since then, Alpha Egg has established a joint project with the Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science of the Ministry of Education to check the function and content of the product from the source of educational theory.
According to the laws of children's physical and mental development, they work with education experts to adapt and produce systematic age-divided content, so that every piece of content in the alpha egg can be listened to and learned by children with confidence.
With the support of technology, theory, content, and three parties, Alpha Egg also installed a "remote sensor" on parents' mobile phones - by building APP and mini programs, parents can participate in their children's daily life in a timely manner.
From children's GPT robots and AI programming blocks on the desk, to the intelligent story machine placed next to the pillow, to the preschool education robot placed in the kindergarten...
In recent years, the forms of alpha egg products have become more and more diverse.
It not only covers more scenarios of children's learning and growth, but also successfully applies the technical model of integrated software and hardware products to children's intelligent products.
It has realized the product concept of "not only accompanying children's growth, but also helping parents accompany, understand and participate in children's growth".
Why AI must be more realistic to help children's education
The professionalism and accuracy of artificial intelligence in children's education are related to the educational development of the next generation of the country, and can also see through the responsibility, love and feelings of a product brand.
The other day, the author chatted with a fourth-grade mother, and she shared her "parenting entanglement" with me.
My child is in the third grade, homework is getting more and more difficult, always asking me for mobile phones, I have a lot to worry about:
First, will children really learn with mobile phones?
Second, can you really search for accurate answers on your phone?
Third, after seeing the answer, can the child really understand clearly?
What she is struggling with is also what many parents are worried about.
Parents know that there is a huge amount of content on the Internet, but it is mixed and may not really be suitable for children.
In terms of using AI to help children learn, Alpha Egg is particularly "real" in terms of professionalism and accuracy.
Just talking about a small alpha egg AI dictionary pen T20, it is the first AI knowledge graph learning method in the industry, which can integrate knowledge points and help children learn knowledge systematically from point to surface.
T20 also blessed the homologous assessment technology of the oral test of the middle and high school entrance examination, the homologous evaluation technology of the Mandarin proficiency test, and the homologous technology of the auxiliary marking of the middle and high school entrance examination, and put more than 20 necessary reference books for children into the pen.
In addition to supporting the comprehensive study of Chinese and English, this dictionary pen also supports 5 disciplines to check problems, 9 subject knowledge points to check synchronously, and achieve simultaneous translation of Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian, French, German and other Chinese.
Parents who have owned the Alpha Egg AI Dictionary Pen will feel that Alpha Egg is using the same responsibility and love as parents to make products for their children through the word search translation function of the dictionary pen.
When parents tutor their children at home, especially when it comes to English learning, many times a word will have multiple interpretations in the dictionary.
Parents are confused, and children are time-consuming and laborious to learn, which is also the pain point of Wu Yusheng, president of Alpha Egg, and many parents in the team.
To this end, Wu Yusheng led the parents of the Alpha Egg team to customize a "textbook interpretation dictionary" for children in the Alpha Egg Dictionary Pen.
Every time you scan the words with a dictionary pen, the definitions in the textbook can be the first to appear, which can greatly improve the learning efficiency when the child does homework.
The details are in the real chapter.
Take the grammar explanation function in the Alpha Egg AI dictionary pen. With general artificial intelligence technology, the accuracy of grammar analysis can reach more than 90%, and the efficiency of product development is also very high.
However, a 90% accuracy rate means that for every 10 grammar sentences, there may be 1 wrong answer.
In the end, the Alpha Egg team opted for a manual annotation method that was almost ten times the amount of work.
They invited a team of nearly 500 experts to spend one year finely labeling the knowledge base, marking nearly 250,000 textbook sentences.
Just for one thing - to ensure that the alpha egg AI dictionary pen gives every sentence to the child's grammar explanation correct.
20 years ago, the international artificial intelligence, speech recognition, synthesis competitions were basically dominated by European and American countries, but now, the related technology of alpha eggs has also reached the international level.
This is all the "real" return of alpha eggs to children's educational products.
Not only that, because the members of the Alpha Egg core team are themselves the parents of the children.
So every time they iterate on the product, they ask themselves: If my child uses this product, what features will he need? What problems are encountered? How to solve it?
Only when their children recognize and nod their heads can they have the courage and determination to establish a product project.
Visionary parents have done it right
In the era of artificial intelligence 2.0, AI will enter thousands of industries and change our lifestyle.
Standing on the cusp, as parents, we have an obligation to lead our children and actively use products and tools to embrace and harness artificial intelligence.
Last month, Alpha Egg released the first children's cognitive large model in China - Alpha Egg Children's Cognitive Large Model, and launched the Alpha Egg Children's GPT robot based on this large model.
It builds a mirror world parallel to the child's daily life, laying the foundation for the topic of common chat, so that the child can take the initiative to chat and have a common topic to chat.
Alpha Egg also quickly applied this technology to Alpha Egg AI Dictionary Pen T20, the child is equivalent to an additional 24-hour online one-on-one "oral foreign teacher", the AI teacher will give judgment and reply to the child's expression, and do more targeted exercises.
It is believed that in the near future, children who grow up in the era of the first generation of "AI big models" will use big data and big models to perceive the whole world and improve their ability to express communication, shape emotional intelligence, and expand thinking.
Countless parents are gearing up to keep their children up with the tide of the times, helping their children take a step forward in advance, and the future may achieve and change their lives.
As Liu Qingsheng, chairman of Taoyun Technology and the "father of alpha eggs", looks forward, in the future, enterprises will deeply cultivate the understanding and generation ability of large models, so that it can be like human cognition, from the single mode of text to the multi-modal of image, audio and video, helping more children and families.
As an old friend of Taoyun Technology, the author has always thought that this is a company that cannot say "beautiful things", but especially can do "beautiful things".
They adhere to the original intention of "making good products", incubate products with their hearts like parents love their children, and are down-to-earth and accumulate steps day by day.
Because they always believe that the choice of products is in the hands of consumers. The company's dedication and perseverance will eventually win the recognition and trust of consumers.
The era of AI 2.0 has arrived, may our children work with Taoyun Technology Alpha Egg to calmly ride the wind of new AI technology and rush to a brighter and better life!