AI digital human support to improve intelligence of children from infancy to childhood by utilizing multiple generative AIs.
- The following is content from the press release -
(headquartered in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture; Kenichiro Koseki, President; hereinafter "Bashozu") announced today that it has launched "Kiddia," a service that uses AI digital humans to help children improve their intelligence.https://kiddia.syncman.jp(hereinafter referred to as "the Company") has been released and is now available for free trial.
Kiddia" is a web service that provides families with children from infancy to childhood with an AI digital human who is like a "personal tutor" who is always there for them.
Kiddia's digital human can not only talk to the child at any time, but also explore the child's interests through natural interaction, sometimes asking questions, and helping the child to improve his or her knowledge and intelligence.
Kiddia's digital humans also work with parents to achieve more effective parenting by providing parents with feedback on insights gained from their interactions with their children.
Kiddia Experience Movie (6 year old boy)
Video of a 6-year-old boy actually interacting with a Kiddia digital human is now available.
Kiddia Features and Functions
Various digital humans with areas of expertise
Kiddia has digital humans in operation with different characteristics for each field. You can select the digital human that best suits your child's needs and objectives, and start the dialogue at any time.
Children who cannot yet read or write can use Kiddia digital human interaction as it is voice-only and does not require text input.
A variety of digital humans with features for extracting, guiding, and expressing dialogue topics according to fields such as nature/science, English/linguistics, society/culture, etc., are scheduled to appear one after another.
Natural dialogue, guiding topics, visual representation
Kiddia digital humans have 2D visuals and perform real-time communication involving listening, speaking, seeing, showing, and remembering.
In addition to realizing natural dialogue based on a large-scale language model, Kiddia not only explores children's interests and concerns during the dialogue, but also guides them to appropriate topics and attempts actions to improve their specific knowledge and intelligence. In addition, Kiddia Digital Human can display diagrams, images, etc. related to the topics detected in the dialogue in real time to help the user understand the content of the dialogue.
Feedback email to parents
After each interaction with the child, Kiddia Digital Human analyzes the content of the interaction and sends a feedback email to the parent/guardian. The feedback email will include the following information
- Dialogue Overview
- Interests and concerns of the children identified
- Knowledge your child has learned
- Things you think your child understands correctly / things you think he/she doesn't understand correctly
- Educationally inappropriate language for children (*only if detected)
Visualize the structure of extracted knowledge and thoughts
As you continue to interact with the Kiddia digital human, AI analysis data is accumulated, and you can refer to the structure of your child's knowledge and thinking as a knowledge graph.
We hope you will experience your child's growth.
About Free Trial
New users who register during the free trial period will automatically receive 300 Credits as free quota credits and will be able to use 300 credits worth of functions (equivalent to approximately 300 round-trip dialogues) free of charge.
To use Kiddia or participate in a free trial,Kiddia Top Page(URL below).
Free trial period: May 2024 - end of August 2024
*Kiddia user registration itself is free, and there are no fees incurred after the free credit limit is used up or the free trial period ends, unless you explicitly purchase credits or change plans.
Kiddia is a web browser application that can be used on PCs, tablets and smartphones.Click here for recommended operating environmentfor more information.
Challenges and background that Kiddia solves
The "Why?" of a young child just learning to speak. and "Why? It is very difficult to answer all of the curious questions that a young child who is just learning to speak may ask. Parents would like to be able to talk to their children all the time and teach them various things, but there are limits to their time and ability.
As the number of "dual-earner households" and "single-parent households" increase, the number of "dual-earner households" and "single-parent households" is increasing.(*1)According to statistics, the average daily interaction time between children aged 4 to 6 and their parents is about 27 minutes.(*2)Many parents face time and quality challenges in working with their children.
On the other hand, research(*3)According to the "Japan Children's Education Association (JCEA)," the quantity and quality of "dialogue in childhood" have a significant impact on children's future cognitive abilities and development, and the "enrichment of dialogue in childhood" will become an increasingly important factor in the development of children's abilities who will live in the future. The "enhancement of dialogue in childhood" is expected to become an increasingly important factor in the development of children who will live in the future.
In order to solve these child-rearing issues, Bashoz has developed "Kiddia," a service that supports children's interaction and intelligence development with AI digital humans, utilizing its knowledge of real-time communication service development and operation, and multiple generative AI technologies.
Kiddia aims to reduce the burden and anxiety of parents in child-rearing and to work with parents to achieve more effective and innovative child-rearing.
(*1) Changes in the Number of Households with Both Workers and Housewives (White Paper on Gender Equality, 2023 edition)
(*2) Conversation time between parents and children (Gakken Institute of Education White Paper on Preschoolers Web version "September 2022 Survey")
(*3) Beyond the 30-Million-Word Gap: Children's Conversational Exposure Is Associated With Language-Related Brain Function (John D. E. Gabrieli, 2018)
About Us
Company name: Basjoos Inc.
Location: 3-2-18 Kashimada, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Representative: Kenichiro Koseki
Establishment: November 2, 2020
URL:http://basjoos.com
For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact
Basho's Kiddia Inquiry Desk, Basho's Inc.
E-mail:support@kiddia.syncman.jp
