Cognition & AI
Where Preschoolers Still Outthink AI
Preschoolers can generalize visual rules that challenge multimodal AI. What this gap teaches parents about confidence, understanding, and educational tools.
Tag: Analogical Reasoning
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Cognition & AI
Your Preschooler Sees What AI Misses
Why children often generalize visual patterns better than powerful AI — and how parents can support the embodied, comparison-rich learning that builds flexible thinking.
Cognition & AI
Can You Learn Anything Just by Thinking?
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.
Cognition & AI
A 3-Year-Old Beats GPT-4. Here's Why.
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.
Cognition & AI
The Toddler Test That Stumps Frontier AI
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.
