["Is" is capital in title case, including mini titles] Though talking toys are nothing new, a fresh crop of AI-enabled playthings have entered the scene, making the "Chatty Cathy" and "Teddy Ruxpin" dolls of yesteryear, which were merely reciting pre-programmed phrases, look positively paleontological. More than a decade after "My Friend Cayla," a Bluetooth-enabled and Wifi [check nyt style on this]-connected doll that became "verboten in Deutschland" in 2017 for being a potential espionage device, Mattel and OpenAI's newly-announced partnership [link to our story] to reimagine the future of play," [where does this quote start?] as the iconic toymaker's chief […]

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https://futurism.com/experts-horrified-ai-toys