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Children Generalize From Little Data, Machines Cannot

Human children are the best example we have of a system that truly works as an intelligence, generalizing from comparatively small amounts of data using innate structure, whereas current AI relies on statistical inference from huge datasets, is fooled by adversarial and superficial features, and suffers catastrophic forgetting when rules change slightly, so nothing we have is even in the ballpark of a four-year-old.

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Speaker

Alison Gopnik

Evidence Quote

the machines are very bad at making generalizations so even if you you know taught alpha zero how to play chess and then you said all right we're going to just change the rules a little bit... that kind of difference... leads to this problem they call catastrophic forgetting

Source

153 - Possible MindsMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:27:33 AM

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