{"id":140154,"date":"2022-06-05T04:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T09:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ai-expert-says-soon-people-will-raise-virtual-children-that-cost-less-are-less-messy"},"modified":"2022-06-05T04:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T09:02:30","slug":"ai-expert-says-soon-people-will-raise-virtual-children-that-cost-less-are-less-messy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ai-expert-says-soon-people-will-raise-virtual-children-that-cost-less-are-less-messy","title":{"rendered":"AI Expert Says Soon People Will Raise \u201cVirtual Children\u201d That Cost Less, Are Less Messy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-expert-says-soon-people-will-raise-virtual-children-that-cost-less-are-less-messy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catriona Campbell, a UK-based artificial intelligence expert, argues we could soon be raising artificially intelligence virtual children inside the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>She dubs these hypothetical offspring \u201cTamagotchi children,\u201d in a reference to the popular virtual pets from the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>In her new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09QQJ96MV?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" class=\"\">AI by Design: A Plan For Living With Artificial Intelligence<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/05\/30\/tamagotchi-children-dont-exist-could-solve-population-problem\/\" class=\"\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em> reports<\/a>, Campbell argues that these virtual kiddos could be an environmentally friendly and cheaper answer to overpopulation and limited resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catriona Campbell, a UK-based artificial intelligence expert, argues we could soon be raising artificially intelligence virtual children inside the metaverse. She dubs these hypothetical offspring \u201cTamagotchi children,\u201d in a reference to the popular virtual pets from the 1990s. In her new book \u201cAI by Design: A Plan For Living With Artificial Intelligence,\u201d The Telegraph reports, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}