How to equip yourself with knowledge to explain the ubiquitous AI stuff to your slowly growing ones?

Sitting together with many parents and kids We just sat together and talked … about AI, what else? Everyone in the group is using it and everyone somehow copes with the crazy flood of new foundation models, tools, approaches, or just news, or own experiences in this field. It seemed that everyone in the group has a more or less well working mental model around LLMs and everyone is more or less able to use things like ChatGPT well enough and fearless enough to get to good enough results through experimentation and experience build-up. On the side, the tools and models are getting better anyway at “guessing” what we want them to do and LLM companies also invest in solving known issues better with each new generation of their products. ...

February 6, 2026