Talking about “the birds and the bees” with your kids is the parenting equivalent of assembling IKEA furniture without instructions: frustrating, bewildering, and destined to leave someone in tears. Whether it’s deciding the what, when, or accepting that you’re in way over your head, parents often end up turning a teachable moment into a full-blown train wreck. Inevitably, the result is a muddled conversation that leaves kids with more questions than answers and parents contemplating their life’s choices. But why struggle through this yourself when you can outsource it to ChatGPT? In revisiting my 2017 article, Monkey in a Pink Canoe, I’ve tapped ChatGPT to help lighten the load, by…
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How To Explain the Birds and the Bees to a Five-year-old Boy — ChatGPT Style Using the new AI technology to help make it easy on parents
How do you feel about the “new” artificial intelligence tools used for generating original content? Are you excited? Scared to death? Don’t give a hoot? Well, as someone who’s written professionally for nearly twenty years, I was curious to find out what all the hoopla was. Can tools like ChatGPT really save you time? Can it draft quality content without sounding like a robot? Am I going to be out of a job? I had to see for myself. To put AI to the test, I asked ChatGPT to approach a sensitive subject every father dreads: explaining the birds and the bees to his boy. First, I asked the chatbot to explain…