Cognition & AI
Your Child Is Learning the Unsaid
How children learn hidden meanings, indirect requests, and social context—and why fluent AI still takes a very different route.
Tag: Active Inference
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Embodied Cognition & AI
AI Can Be Trained. Can It Be Taught?
Children are built to extract general principles from ostensive instruction — an evolved system that comes online at 9 months. AI systems can be trained on feedback, but they can't truly be taught. Here's the gap that matters most for every classroom deploying AI right now.
Embodied Cognition & AI
Transformers Look. Children Pay Attention.
Transformers compute attention over millions of tokens simultaneously. Children pay attention through their bodies, their predictions, their mistakes. The gap between the two reveals something deep about what attention actually is — and why embodied AI keeps failing in kitchens.