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A father, two kids, a lot of curiosity
Romane asked me if AI dreams. I didn't know what to say. Not because the question is hard. Because I didn't have the right words. That's where all of this started.
My name is Julien. Romane is 6, Meryl is 3. I work in tech. One evening, we took Ary out of its box — a connected plush toy with built-in AI. They shouted at it, flipped it in every direction, asked two contradictory questions in the same sentence. An hour of complete chaos.
What I understood that evening: their brains were recording something, even without understanding it. The quality of the answer depends on the quality of the question. They didn't know that yet. But they were in the process of discovering it.
I could have explained it. But at 3 and 6, a talk about AI lasts thirty seconds before we're talking about something else. So we started inventing games instead. Paper, dice, objects from the living room. Meryl mostly participated by knocking things over. And something happened: it worked. Not always as planned. But it worked.
This blog is what I noted along the way. What stuck, what failed, and what it taught us — them, and mostly me.
I'm not a teacher. I'm not an AI researcher. I'm just a father trying to pass something useful on, in a human and joyful way.
If you're a parent, an educator, or simply curious, welcome. The activities happen at home, with whatever you have at hand.
In his own words
Julien in a few minutes.
Why I created this blog