Kids’ brains may hold the secret to building better AI
by Sigal Samuel
“It’s called Moravec’s paradox: The things we thought would be hard — like playing chess — are things machines can do very easily, yet they can’t do things a 4-year-old can do…. when I talk about my research to scientists, people still come up to me and say, “You should talk to my wife, she’s a preschool teacher.”… it reflects an intellectual pecking order — anything to do with kids is soft, it’s women’s work…”