The AI End Game: Two-Year-Olds vs. AI with Alison Gopnik

The AI End Game: Two-Year-Olds vs. AI with Alison Gopnik

May 19, 2026 · 56 min · Episode 260513

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Alison Gopnik discusses how two-year-olds outsmart advanced AI models and the differences in learning between children and AI.

Tech billionaires love to claim that artificial intelligence is getting smarter by the day. But according to cognitive scientist and UC Berkeley professor Alison Gopnik, a typical two-year-old routinely outsmarts the most advanced AI models. She joins WITHpod to discuss how children vs. AI learn and why AI, in many cases, still falls behind human capabilities.

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