Can AI Take Common Sense from a Baby?

About this episode

The episode discusses the limitations of AI in acquiring common sense compared to infants and explores insights from developmental science.

Generative AI tools built on large language models are increasingly "intelligent" yet lack a baby's common sense – the ability to non-verbally generalize to novel situations without additional training. What can developmental science contribute to AI? Tech journalist and former CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2023-24 CASBS fellow David Moore, a developmental scientist with expertise in infant cognition, on evaluating the efforts of DARPA's Machine Common Sense program as well as prospects and concerns associated with creating AIs with common sense.

People in this episode

Guest: David Moore

Topics covered

• AI
• common sense
• developmental science
• infant cognition

Keywords

• Generative AI
• large language models
• DARPA
• Machine Common Sense

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Products: Machine Common Sense

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