From Baby Talk to Baby AI
We ask a lot of ourselves as children. Somehow we must go from sensory lumps to mobile, rational, attentive communicators in just a few years. Here you are, a child with no vocabulary, in a room cluttered with toys and stuffed animals. You pick up a Lincoln Log and your keeper says, "This is a 'log'." You finally understand that "log" does not strictly refer to this particular brown plastic cylinder or to brown plastic cylinders in general, but to brown plastic cylinders that embody the characteristics of the parts of felled and denuded trees, which are also, of course , “trunks”.There has been a lot of research and heated debate about how children achieve this. Some scientists have argued that most of our language acquisition can be explained by associative learning, since we...