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AI tutors appear to understand children emotionally — but new research shows ToM in LLMs is encoded in just 0.001% of model weights. Here's why that matters for children who are building their models of social reality from statistical patterns.
Jules Okafor·
Dyscalculia, autism, and dyslexia aren't just clinical categories — they're nature's lesion studies. What atypical development reveals about how minds are built, and what AI's own failure modes might be trying to tell us.
Lina Chae·
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.
Maren Solis·
Babies extract statistical patterns from the world without anyone teaching them — the same computational logic powering BERT, GPT, and DINO. The comparison is striking. The gap is more interesting.
Raf Delgado·