Neuroscience & AI
Kids Compress. AI Memorizes. That's the Whole Problem.
A toddler generalizes 'dog' from 3 examples. AI needs millions. The reason might be that cognitive constraints — not capabilities — are what produce genuine abstraction.
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A toddler generalizes 'dog' from 3 examples. AI needs millions. The reason might be that cognitive constraints — not capabilities — are what produce genuine abstraction.
Children are intuitive causal scientists — they poke, tilt, and intervene to figure out why things happen. AI systems, despite their power, still can't quite do this. Here's why the gap matters.
