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Tania Lombrozo calls it "learning by thinking" — gaining genuinely new knowledge without new input. LLMs can now do something that looks identical. Here's why the difference between them might be the most important question in cognitive science right now.
Lina Chae·
Preschoolers outperform frontier AI on visual analogy tasks. AI models skip the developmental milestone sequence children follow. Fine-tuning isn't expertise — and the difference tells us something important about both.
Theo Kask·
Preschoolers beat GPT-o1, GPT-4V, and LLaVA on simple visual analogy tasks. The gap reveals something foundational about how children — and machines — actually reason about structure.
Maren Solis·