A dad just can’t seem to figure out why his six-year-old daughter wasn’t impressed by the AI toy he gave her for Christmas. Alex Volkov, a self-styled “AI evangelist” and founder of a translation service powered by the tech, tweeted about his parenting difficulties over the holidays. For better or worse, it’s provided us a glimpse into the mind of the ardent techno-optimist realizing that others, especially those of uncorrupted minds, may not share in their enthusiasm for large language models. “Would you like to play a game or maybe hear a fun fact?” asks the annoyingly chirpy-sounding AI in a video shared by Volkov. “No,” his daughter replies. Incidents like these seem to genuinely baffle Volkov. He writes that he cannot understand why his daughter disabled the dinosaur plushie’s built-in AI voice — opting, instead, to play with it like a regular toy, and dressing it with clothes she made. “She played with this Dino, chatted with it, and then… learned to turn it off, and doesn’t want it to talk anymore,” Volkov wrote. “She still loves playing with it,” he added, “but every time I ask her if she’d like to chat with it, she says no.” “I gently asked why, and wasn’t able to really understand where’s the resistance,” he mused. The Dino doll, sold by Magical Toys for $200 a piece, is billed as an alternative to letting your kid get their brain fried by iPad screens — and, well, fair enough. Using an app, parents can…Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy