Are Voice Assistants Bad for Young Children? -Eazl Blog

Roughly 25 million voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home are expected to sell in the US in 2017 and researchers are noticing that infants who grow up around these devices are having developmental challenges. For example, kids who grow up with voice assistants tend to have less regard for people's feelings because they're used to interacting vocally with an object without emotions. They also tend to place less value on developing vocabulary because it's more efficient for them to retrieve information from Google Home or Alexa with simple commands. Links mentioned in the video: • Apis Cor's 3D printed building video • Jeff Kolesky's technical job search data analysis