Ideas from Mark Stout

  Google's Gemini lets you make a custom story with illustrations for you to share with a little loved one <cross posted from my Substack Newsletter > Once upon a time I wrote a weekly tech column for the local paper called Family Tech. I tried to focus on topics not for geeks, but the practical tech families could use to make life just a bit easier. This topic would have been a natural for the column. With AI, you can make your own children’s story books to read aloud to your child or grandchild, or let them read to themselves. It can even read them aloud to the child while they follow along with the book. Creating them is as easy as going to Google’s Gemini Artificial Intelligence and typing “Help 5 year old Amy to not be frightened of dogs.”. A minute or two later it came up with this . Try it out, its free to look at. Or you can get more detailed in your description : Prompt : Create a story about Batkid, the boy in San Francisco that got to help Batman for a day as his M...