{"id":218916,"date":"2026-05-22T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:00:09","slug":"where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did this early form of artificial intelligence teach kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/question-of-the-day\/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids\">Where did this early form of artificial intelligence teach kids?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/question-of-the-day\/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/question-of-the-day\/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 18:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Historical Impact<\/strong>: Matthew Gray, a former fourth-grade student of Leachim, emphasizes the robot&#8217;s profound positive influence on his life.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovative Teaching Method<\/strong>: Leachim, an anagram of its creator Michael J. Freeman&#8217;s name, was an early artificial intelligence that was used to teach fourth graders in the Bronx in the early 1970s.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interactive Capabilities<\/strong>: The 6-foot-tall robot could simultaneously interact with multiple students, responding to them by name and tailoring its teaching pace to each student&#8217;s individual needs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patience and Adaptation<\/strong>: Students appreciated Leachim&#8217;s &#8220;ceaseless patience,&#8221; particularly its ability to cope with repeated mistakes without frustration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resurfacing for Auction<\/strong>: Decades later, Leachim, along with its prototypes, patents, inventor notes, and descendants, is slated for an upcoming public auction although the date and venue have not been disclosed yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did this early form of artificial intelligence teach kids? https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/question-of-the-day\/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids Publish Date: 2026-05-22 18:58:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/8423511\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/940x457+0+85\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F96%2F2b%2Fa75ac934825f90d1165542c741eb%2Fshutterstock-176194913.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218918,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218916\/revisions\/218918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}