luckily it seems Scratch isn’t interested in adding script generation with AI
looks like 4.0 will probably just add different AI powered blocks/plugins, (edit: improved facial recognition, has been a feature since 2021) facial recognition being one of them on Scratch Lab, as well as body tracking and object detection
https://lab.scratch.mit.edu/face
https://raise.mit.edu/research-projects/creativity-with-scratch-and-ai/
https://resources.scratch.mit.edu/www/lessons/en/ScratchLearningResource_ScratchAILesson.pdf
Yay! New scratch upda—
AI? Really? AI? They want to inspire creativity and they are including AI? How on earth will AI help kids create? If anything, it will stop the learning process because, instead of creating art or code that is creative and requires skill, kids will just write a prompt.
in case you missed it
a new position on the scratch foundation’s website went up recently, and the job description confirms that scratch 4.0 is in development. says it’ll feature a “re-imagined online community and creative ai”… whatever that means
no word of a release date, but that’s understandable. i’m actually kind of excited for this, i feel like scratch’s online community hasn’t been working super well recently so hopefully this’ll fix some of those issues. as for the ai thing… please no. so many things can go wrong with that…