Suffer the little children...

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<strong>Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. </strong>~ Mark 10:14

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<p>If you want to meld human and machine, you have to start with the innocence of a baby. In order to do that, tech companies are feeding the thoughts of babies to AI.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3250529/award-winning-ai-scientist-who-left-us-china-creates-worlds-first-ai-child-beijing?utm_source=TodayOnline&amp;utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_campaign=contentexchange&amp;utm_content=3250529">A scientist in China has created a virtual artificial intelligence (AI) child</a>, the first of its kind and a giant step toward making machines more human. Her name is Tong Tong, which literally means Little Girl in Chinese. Yes, she’s a girl, and her pronouns are “she/her”.</p>

<p>It’s interesting that while humans are being told to be “gender fluid”, AI is more often than not being assigned a definite sex. That sex is usually female. If Alexa was Alex and he had a deep, commanding voice, you wouldn’t feel so much like you were in charge, would you? Just think about that for a moment…</p>

<p>Anyway, at the same time as Tong Tong was being developed in China, the United States was doing the same thing.</p>

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