What I Read: Kids’ brains building AI

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/28/18239993/artificial-intelligence-children-machine-learning-alison-gopnik-psychology

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…”