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.
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How children learn hidden meanings, indirect requests, and social context—and why fluent AI still takes a very different route.
Children spend years learning that language rarely means what it literally says. LLMs can generate grammatically perfect sentences — but whether they understand what those sentences actually do in conversation is a different, harder question.
