| Happy Sunday folks! This is, honestly, the best thing I have ever made with AI. A 60-second nature documentary, narrated like David Attenborough, about a glowing alien planet. The three creatures that live there are Mateo, Maria and Conor. And they had no idea until it played. In this week's email: - 🐾 I turned my three kids into alien creatures, and filmed the moment they found out
- 🖥️ China switched on an AI blackboard in 60,000 schools. My honest read
- 🌐 I turned our whole website into a launch video, using AI
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| 🐾 I turned my three kids into alien creatures We spent Saturday morning inventing three creatures for a glowing alien planet. Mateo (9), Maria (6) and Conor (4) picked the features. - A big-eared thing on the plains,
- A teal river swimmer,
- A round sleepy forest digger.
I kept one thing secret. I named each creature after one of them. 👉 Watch to the 40-second mark, when they realise it's them Sixty seconds. Three creatures. Three kids who had no idea they were the animals. When the forest creature appeared, Mateo and Maria worked out the names and started howling. Conor walked into the room at that exact second, saw his own creature, Conorín, and had no idea why. We caught the whole thing on camera 😄. The creatures look properly real, like a wildlife shot off the telly, not a cartoon. If you want to make one with your own kids, I wrote up the exact tools and prompts here: make your own, step-by-step guide. | |
| 🖥️ China put an AI blackboard in 60,000 schools At the World AI Conference this week, the Chinese company iFLYTEK showed off an AI blackboard. A teacher writes a maths equation in normal chalk, and within seconds it becomes an interactive graph, then a rotatable 3D model. Handwriting gets digitised, lessons record themselves. iFLYTEK says it is already in more than 60,000 schools. It is genuinely impressive but I would hold the excitement for a second. That "60,000 schools" figure is the company's own number, not an audited one. The clip everyone is sharing is a polished demo on a clean board, not a real classroom.
There is no evidence yet that kids learn better with it. And the boards use a wide-angle camera setup to record and analyse the whole classroom, across 60,000 schools, with no public word on how all that footage of children is stored, for how long, or who gets to see it. | |
| 🌐 I turned our whole website into a launch video Same week, different experiment. I fed the AI Tools for Kids website into an AI tool and it turned the whole thing into a 40-second launch video, alien creatures and all, in an afternoon. The sort of thing that used to need an editor and the best part of a week. It is going up on my socials this week. If you want a peek at how it came out: watch the launch video below:
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| That is the lot for this week. If your kids could be any creature on a made-up planet, what would they be? Hit reply and tell me, I read every one. See you next week, Niall P.S. If you only watch one thing today, make it this. Skip to the 40-second mark, that is the exact moment the penny drops and they realise the animals are them: watch here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O3vuSj-Ecg | |
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