{"id":182096,"date":"2024-02-06T02:22:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T08:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/an-ai-just-learned-language-through-the-eyes-and-ears-of-a-toddler"},"modified":"2024-02-06T02:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T08:22:58","slug":"an-ai-just-learned-language-through-the-eyes-and-ears-of-a-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/an-ai-just-learned-language-through-the-eyes-and-ears-of-a-toddler","title":{"rendered":"An AI Just Learned Language Through the Eyes and Ears of a Toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ai-just-learned-language-through-the-eyes-and-ears-of-a-toddler2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8412186\/\">For the next year and a half,<\/a> the camera captured snippets of his life. He crawled around the family\u2019s pets, watched his parents cook, and cried on the front porch with grandma. All the while, the camera recorded everything he heard.<\/p>\n<p>What sounds like a cute toddler home video is actually a daring concept: Can AI learn language like a child? The results could also reveal how children rapidly acquire language and concepts at an early age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adi1374\">A new study<\/a> in<em> Science<\/em> describes how researchers used Sam\u2019s recordings to train an AI to understand language. With just a tiny portion of one child\u2019s life experience over a year, the AI was able to grasp basic concepts\u2014for example, a ball, a butterfly, or a bucket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next year and a half, the camera captured snippets of his life. He crawled around the family\u2019s pets, watched his parents cook, and cried on the front porch with grandma. All the while, the camera recorded everything he heard. What sounds like a cute toddler home video is actually a daring concept: Can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182096","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}