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: Generalization
7 articles
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
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
What "Goed" Knows That GPT Doesn't
Children say "goed" and "maked" because they extracted a rule. That's not an error — it's a generalization engine in action. Here's why the same thing that makes kids say wrong things is exactly what AI still can't do right.
Ethics & Society
No Such Thing as an Average Child
Thirty-something AI tools evaluated for school curricula. Almost none had been tested specifically on children. The science of developmental variation explains why that's not just a gap in documentation — it's a design failure with a long and troubling history.
Cognition & AI
Your Brain Runs on Stories. AI Runs on Text.
Stories aren't just how humans communicate — they're how we think. Language models can predict your brain's response to a sentence. They still can't tell a story. Here's why the gap is wider than it looks.
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.