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

Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes by MS NOW

May 19, 202600:56:04News & Politics

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 mos...

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