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Avni Patel Thompson

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TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

I've begun to realize that one of the most radical things AI can do for us is not do the things for us faster and better, but to push us to choose what is most meaningful and then make the space for us to do it ourselves.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

This feels like a brave new world, but I'm excited to see what is possible when we have tools that encourage us not to be more perfect and productive, but unfinished and evolving.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

that reminds us not to be afraid, to bear the friction, that just shows us how we are all beautifully, imperfectly, inconveniently human.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

Thank you.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

to each family for better or for worse like you can talk about like you know um human reinforcement learning right like reinforce these behaviors and stuff like that but the base comes from somewhere the base has been trained on something right and so for us what we're doing is that there's a base model then there's the general parenting that we're saying like think like a parent would

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And then we give our parents an ability to, we call it like family memory, and they're able to answer questions specifically about like how they would do something.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

So like how we don't eat beef and pork, and my daughter is vegetarian, but struggles with protein.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And so that will feel like the personalization or like values.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

My family values these five values, right?

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

We value adventure, we value community.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

So

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

Anything you suggest comes through the lens of these values.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

But I just want to frame it.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

Who trains that thought or whatever you want to call it that my daughter talks to?

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

So many people in tech love the tech as a gadget.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And it really physically hurts me because I love the humans.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And I want to fight for the humans, which is like you have to live in human pain.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

to build from there.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

Human relationships are friction by definition, but the goodness lives in the friction.

TED Talks Daily
Can AI help with the chaos of family life? | Avni Patel Thompson (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

And so if I go talk to, if my daughter talks to the ba-ba instead of the ba, ba maybe is having a bad day and maybe she'd like brush her off or like whatever else, but that's a human interaction that my daughter now has to learn about, like to acknowledge how is your day and things like that.