alt Hacker News"The goal of this study is to better understand children’s everyday learning experiences and to develop Al tools that can help assess classroom interaction quality"
This..feels like a worthy goal. Just switch the study to opt-in instead of opt-out and 404media can't get the "ER-MEH-GERD AI" click bait. This is not generative AI and the lead-researcher is an early-childhood education specialist [1].
My kid went to a UC Berkeley adjacent pre-school and had researchers come by all the time, filming and taking notes (after consent forms were signed). They would share their studies with us later, it was very illuminating.
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> "to develop Al tools that can help assess classroom interaction quality". This..feels like a worthy goal.
Does it though? Do you really want everything, including caring for young children, to be quantified into metrics assessed by a computer?
>My kid went to a UC Berkeley adjacent pre-school and had researchers come by all the time, filming and taking notes (after consent forms were signed). They would share their studies with us later, it was very illuminating.
My undergrad had something similar. I took a class through it for some general credit. For one of our assignments we'd observe and take notes, sitting in the gallery space, which was a sort of catwalk above the classroom hidden behind a one way mirror. The whole classroom was microphoned and we could tune in to certain areas of the room to listen in. I am not sure if the preschoolers themselves were aware of the surveillance as probably that would influence their behavior.
Studies are great. Free training material for commercial AI products, not so great
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How does opt-out work? How can I guarantee my kid's likeness will not be recorded by some company? Slapping a sticker on then won't cut it since they would still be collecting the video/audio and then having to do something after the fact, right?