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Babies know more than they should. AI knows less than it seems. The nativism-empiricism debate — is the mind born equipped or built from scratch? — turns out to be the organizing fault line of both developmental neuroscience and modern AI architecture.
Bilingual children develop metalinguistic superpowers by navigating two languages. AI systems can "speak" hundreds — and understand none the way humans do. The question isn't just neuroscience. It's about whose languages we're choosing to build into our systems, and what we're telling children when we don't.
Children have a supercharged window for learning motor skills, language, and movement. Deep neural networks face a strikingly similar problem — and the solutions emerging from neuroscience might hold the key.
