{"id":252903,"date":"2026-05-22T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:00:10","slug":"where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/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<p>                                    \u201cAs one of Leachim\u2019s original fourth grade students, I will never forget its positive influence over my entire life \u2026 ,\u201d said Matthew Gray. He was talking about one of his old instructors, who also happens to be an early form of artificial intelligence. Leachim was a robot that helped teach Gray and his fellow fourth graders in a classroom in the Bronx in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Leachim is an anagram of its creator\u2019s name, Michael J. Freeman, a pioneer scientist and inventor. The 6-foot-tall robot could interact independently with several students at a time. It addressed them each by name and adjusted its teaching speed to meet each student\u2019s unique needs. One of students\u2019 favorite things about Leachim was the bot\u2019s \u201cceaseless patience\u201d no matter how many times they got something wrong.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"\/><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019e-5106-df54-a5fe-757f0f2a0000\"\/>More than 50 years later, Leachim has re-emerged and is headed for auction. The robot will go up for public auction later this year along with its prototypes, patents, inventor notes and commercialized descendants. A date and auction house have not been announced yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/question-of-the-day\/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids\">Source<\/a><\/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":252906,"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":[],"class_list":["post-252903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252907,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252903\/revisions\/252907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}