Why Dora the Explorer Talks Better Than AI
Dora the Explorer is a better conversationalist than most AI.
Not because she’s deep. Not because she has better answers.
Because she waits.
She asks a question, pauses, and gives you actual space to respond. The whole show is built around the idea that an answer needs time to become an answer.
That sounds like a low bar. It isn’t.
I recently talked to Professor Hansun Zhang Waring, a conversation analyst at Teachers College, Columbia University, who studies what makes human conversation actually work. She and her colleague have been researching AI conversation specifically, trying to figure out what it’s missing. Their answer came down to three things.
What AI Can’t Do
The first is emergence. Human conversation is built in real time, bit by bit. Each thing you say shapes what comes next. AI conversation doesn’t work like that. It arrives pre-assembled, like an Amazon package. The box...
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