‘Parenting hits different when you work in AI’: A San Francisco father is going viral for letting a chatbot read to his baby

According to a new San Francisco father, “parenting hits different when you work in AI.” Alvin Sng, a software engineer at AI company Factory, went viral for his AI-infused parenting technique—but not in a good way. In his since-deleted post, Sng said that when his wife asked him to read their newborn baby a book, he replied, “I can just play an audiobook from my phone.” When she objected that the story wouldn’t be in his voice, Sng said he could simply train an AI model to read to t...