Yesterday I tried google ai studio. 1hr later I had an app on my phone. Its hard to justify the motivation of learning all the foundations and hard stuff, when it's so easy to get to the end result using AI.
I've been avoiding showing them that image generation is a real thing, they love to draw and do arts. I fear that that instant gratification will just hook them to do more and more AI images and loose their interest in actual drawing and painting. On the other hand, prompt engineering is a thing, even for image gen.
No question that learning to leverage AI is a skill. But I don't even know how to navigate that when I think about the kind of future my kids will face.
Honestly, sometimes I feel it's just wiser to put your time and effort into things AI is very far to replace us. I'm always swinging from "we need to learn tech" to "we can't beat it, let's put our focus and energy into something else". (note: this is also because my kids are not very tech-oriented, I understand this would be totally different if I had geeks in the house that love computer stuff - like I was!)
How are you all navigating this, especially those of you with kids?
And programming... Well, I think it is a fun way to make your brain exercise, seems like a good reason to teach it to kids. Also, it helps understand how most of things are working internally nowadays.