ChatGPT to predict<\/a> the stock market or to diagnose a weird cough, Doctor Nici Sweaney has a whole other use for it.<\/p>\n\u201cI actually have ChatGPT as my babysitter,\u201d Sweaney told news.com.au<\/p>\n
With four kids ranging between the ages of five and 12, the Sydney mother has a strong data science background and is now CEO of an AI consultancy business, AI Her Way.<\/p>\n
With many balls to juggle, Sweaney has used her knowledge to transform from a time-poor mom to a mom who actually has time for herself.<\/p>\n
Sweaney is the CEO of an AI consultancy business. Tom Dowden \/ Facebook<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you use it well, that frees up time and space and energy and more love,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
By offloading tasks, she\u2019s \u201cable to be more present\u201d, and spend extra time with her family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI work less than 25 hours a week because of how much I use AI, which makes me a better parent,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n
From the pantry to homework at the kitchen table, the technology has helped ease the mental load of motherhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe use it to plan all of our meals, and also write out all the recipes and our grocery list and make it stick to budget as well,\u201d Sweaney said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing that for probably more than four months, and it\u2019s within $5 of the budget every time we\u2019ve been to the checkout\u201d<\/p>\n
By offloading tasks, Sweaney is \u201cable to be more present\u201d, and spend extra time with her family. Pcess609 \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
She also uses the technology as a homework assistant for the kids.<\/p>\n
Her second eldest child had been struggling with maths at school, so the mother used AI for the creation of a system that became incredibly effective.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got ChatGPT to be her daily tutor and give her questions that escalated in how hard they were based on how she answered,\u201d Sweaney explains.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe used to be at a \u2018working towards\u2019 level and now she\u2019s at a consistent level across her mathematics within a year of doing that system.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also proven to be quite the confidant for moments that make being a pre-teen difficult.<\/p>\n
Sweaney also uses the technology as a homework assistant for the kids. Anchalee \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Rather than forcing her daughter into a conversation about friend group drama, Sweaney sets up an AI chat to ask questions and help her daughter process her feelings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI find she tells the tool so much more than she\u2019ll tell me,\u201d she admits.<\/p>\n
The mother looks back on the conversation afterwards, ensuring she is across the issues, while giving her daughter \u201cthat feeling of autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n
In one instance, the transcript advised her daughter: \u201cIt\u2019s not your responsibility to fix everybody else\u2019s drama, and you\u2019re allowed to disengage.\u201d<\/p>\n
The system has become so tuned into the family life that it can differentiate which of the four children are engaging and adjust to suit the needs to each child, particularly in live video mode.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt knows each kid, and it knows how to talk to them, and it celebrates when they get things right. It can play different games with them. It listens to them talk to them and responds in real time,\u201d Sweaney explained.<\/p>\n
Rather than forcing her daughter into a conversation about friend group drama, Sweaney sets up an AI chat to ask questions and help her daughter process her feelings. Nici Sweaney \/ Facebook<\/p>\n
Sweaney has ensured there are what she refers to as \u201cparenting behind-the-scenes\u201d safeguards.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever I set it up to interact with my children, I give it explicit guidelines around the age and how to behave and what not to engage in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s particularly cautious around sensitive topics such as body image, depression or anxiety, programming the AI with a strict rule \u2013 don\u2019t engage. Instruct them to tell a parent.<\/p>\n
While mom guilt is always looming, like it does for every mother, Sweaney refuses to feel a sliver of doubt <\/a>over AI.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t think people should feel guilty. I think that\u2019s an unfair feeling for seeking help,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow are we meant to do it all? We can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
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She does, however, caution parents looking to use AI in their own homes<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say if you\u2019re doing it with your children, especially if they\u2019re kind of underage \u2026 it\u2019s like kind of tapping a random person on the street to come and have a chat with your kids,\u201d Sweaney warns.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut some effort into it before you hand it over to your children.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also says parents need to understand how to mitigate risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cMake sure that you understand that it can take on the persona of whatever brief you give it \u2026 always kind of intimately looking at what your children have been doing with it so you can kind of rectify anything that you detect is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother has shared a new-age parenting technique that has worked wonders for both her and her children.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,9087,580,1251,157,9607,40880,781],"class_list":["post-111159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-australia","tag-chatgpt","tag-lifestyle","tag-openai","tag-parenting","tag-parenting-advice","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}