Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell.
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell.
The short version
- And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child.
- Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…
- “The progress recently has been amazing,” Michael C.
What happened
Frank, a cognitive scientist at Stanford University, says of LLMs. And it raises a tantalizing question for cognitive scientists and a challenge for the architects of AI models: How is it that kids can still outperform the most linguistically sophisticated machines ever built?
Why it matters
Kids show that it could be possible to learn more with less.
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