{"id":175232,"date":"2023-10-31T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/like-humans-this-breakthrough-ai-makes-concepts-out-of-the-words-it-learns"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:24:59","slug":"like-humans-this-breakthrough-ai-makes-concepts-out-of-the-words-it-learns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/like-humans-this-breakthrough-ai-makes-concepts-out-of-the-words-it-learns","title":{"rendered":"Like Humans, This Breakthrough AI Makes Concepts Out of the Words It Learns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/like-humans-this-breakthrough-ai-makes-concepts-out-of-the-words-it-learns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even as toddlers, we have an uncanny ability to turn what we learn about the world into concepts. With just a few examples, we form an idea of what makes a \u201cdog\u201d or what it means to \u201cjump\u201d or \u201cskip.\u201d These concepts are effortlessly mixed and matched inside our heads, resulting in a toddler pointing at a prairie dog and screaming, \u201cBut that\u2019s not a dog!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a team from New York University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06668-3\">created an AI model<\/a> that mimics a toddler\u2019s ability to generalize language learning. In a nutshell, generalization is a sort of flexible thinking that lets us use newly learned words in new contexts\u2014like an older millennial struggling to catch up with Gen Z lingo.<\/p>\n<p>When pitted against adult humans in a language task for generalization, the model matched their performance. It also beat GPT-4, the AI algorithm behind ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as toddlers, we have an uncanny ability to turn what we learn about the world into concepts. With just a few examples, we form an idea of what makes a \u201cdog\u201d or what it means to \u201cjump\u201d or \u201cskip.\u201d These concepts are effortlessly mixed and matched inside our heads, resulting in a toddler pointing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}