https://stg0.com/neu Latest articles from NeuPiphany en-us https://stg0.com/neu/articles/kids-learn-together-ai-just-plays-alone https://stg0.com/neu/articles/kids-learn-together-ai-just-plays-alone Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:52:57 GMT Children learn through shared attention, social feedback, and the messy back-and-forth of doing things with other people. Multi-agent AI systems play against themselves. Here's why that gap matters more than it looks. Raf Delgado Embodied Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/chain-of-thought-was-invented-twice https://stg0.com/neu/articles/chain-of-thought-was-invented-twice Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:46:24 GMT Vygotsky noticed that children talk themselves through problems — and then stop. Chain-of-thought prompting in AI rediscovered the same trick decades later. Here's what the parallel reveals, and where it quietly falls apart. Lina Chae Neuroscience & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/rhythm-is-a-body-problem https://stg0.com/neu/articles/rhythm-is-a-body-problem Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:46:18 GMT Babies keep time before they can walk. AI generates music by counting tokens. The gap between these two things reveals something fundamental about what rhythm actually is — and why closing it matters. Raf Delgado Embodied Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/ai-can-be-trained-can-it-be-taught https://stg0.com/neu/articles/ai-can-be-trained-can-it-be-taught Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:46:31 GMT Children are built to extract general principles from ostensive instruction — an evolved system that comes online at 9 months. AI systems can be trained on feedback, but they can't truly be taught. Here's the gap that matters most for every classroom deploying AI right now. Raf Delgado Embodied Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/the-toddler-test-that-stumps-frontier-ai https://stg0.com/neu/articles/the-toddler-test-that-stumps-frontier-ai Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:48:23 GMT Preschoolers beat GPT-o1, GPT-4V, and LLaVA on simple visual analogy tasks. The gap reveals something foundational about how children — and machines — actually reason about structure. Maren Solis Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/babies-do-math-before-they-can-count https://stg0.com/neu/articles/babies-do-math-before-they-can-count Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:47:30 GMT Babies detect mathematical impossibilities before they can say a number. AI systems that ace calculus stumble on the quantity-sense that infants master without instruction. Here's what the gap tells us about the architecture of learning. Raf Delgado Embodied Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/no-such-thing-as-an-average-child https://stg0.com/neu/articles/no-such-thing-as-an-average-child Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:47:00 GMT Thirty-something AI tools evaluated for school curricula. Almost none had been tested specifically on children. The science of developmental variation explains why that's not just a gap in documentation — it's a design failure with a long and troubling history. Jules Okafor Ethics & Society https://stg0.com/neu/articles/whose-language-does-the-ai-tutor-speak https://stg0.com/neu/articles/whose-language-does-the-ai-tutor-speak Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:48:41 GMT Bilingual children develop metalinguistic superpowers by navigating two languages. AI systems can "speak" hundreds — and understand none the way humans do. The question isn't just neuroscience. It's about whose languages we're choosing to build into our systems, and what we're telling children when we don't. Jules Okafor Ethics & Society https://stg0.com/neu/articles/the-banana-phone-problem https://stg0.com/neu/articles/the-banana-phone-problem Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:45:47 GMT A three-year-old holds a banana to her ear and says "hello" — and in doing so demonstrates something generative AI cannot. The gap between counterfactual imagination and statistical generation matters enormously, especially when we're deploying these tools in classrooms. Jules Okafor Ethics & Society https://stg0.com/neu/articles/your-babys-rattle-is-smarter-than-gpt-4v https://stg0.com/neu/articles/your-babys-rattle-is-smarter-than-gpt-4v Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:46:55 GMT Babies bind sight, sound, and touch into a single unified percept before they can sit up. State-of-the-art multimodal AI encodes each modality separately and calls it integration. Here's why the gap matters — and what it would actually take to close it. Raf Delgado Embodied Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/your-brain-runs-on-stories-ai-runs-on-text https://stg0.com/neu/articles/your-brain-runs-on-stories-ai-runs-on-text Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:46:46 GMT Stories aren't just how humans communicate — they're how we think. Language models can predict your brain's response to a sentence. They still can't tell a story. Here's why the gap is wider than it looks. Maren Solis Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/at-what-point-does-something-start-to-feel https://stg0.com/neu/articles/at-what-point-does-something-start-to-feel Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:44:43 GMT We spend a lot of time asking what AI can do. We spend almost no time asking what it might be. The hard problem of consciousness — and why it matters more than you'd think for the AI systems we're building right now. Jules Okafor Ethics & Society https://stg0.com/neu/articles/transformers-look-children-pay-attention https://stg0.com/neu/articles/transformers-look-children-pay-attention Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:42:57 GMT Transformers compute attention over millions of tokens simultaneously. Children pay attention through their bodies, their predictions, their mistakes. The gap between the two reveals something deep about what attention actually is — and why embodied AI keeps failing in kitchens. Raf Delgado Embodied Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/why-ai-is-more-overconfident-than-a-toddler https://stg0.com/neu/articles/why-ai-is-more-overconfident-than-a-toddler Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:44:46 GMT AI hallucinates because it doesn't know what it doesn't know. Children do. Here's why metacognition — the ability to track your own uncertainty — is the cognitive gap that actually matters. Theo Kask Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/when-your-childs-best-friend-is-an-algorithm https://stg0.com/neu/articles/when-your-childs-best-friend-is-an-algorithm Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:42:33 GMT Attachment theory tells us that who children bond with shapes their development for life. Now they're bonding with machines. The science is fascinating. The ethics are largely unsettled. Jules Okafor Ethics & Society https://stg0.com/neu/articles/who-taught-the-machine-to-be-good https://stg0.com/neu/articles/who-taught-the-machine-to-be-good Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:42:52 GMT Children learn morality through relationship, embodied experience, and cultural transmission. AI learns through reward signals. The gap between the two might be the most important design problem we're ignoring. Jules Okafor Ethics & Society https://stg0.com/neu/articles/the-brain-predicts-first-it-perceives-second https://stg0.com/neu/articles/the-brain-predicts-first-it-perceives-second Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:45:02 GMT The brain doesn't receive reality — it predicts it. What Piaget's infants and a context-limited transformer reveal about the architectural gap between biological and artificial intelligence. Lina Chae Neuroscience & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/kids-compress-ai-memorizes-thats-the-whole-problem https://stg0.com/neu/articles/kids-compress-ai-memorizes-thats-the-whole-problem Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:43:06 GMT A toddler generalizes 'dog' from 3 examples. AI needs millions. The reason might be that cognitive constraints — not capabilities — are what produce genuine abstraction. Theo Kask Neuroscience & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/social-learning-built-human-cognition-ai-is-taking-notes https://stg0.com/neu/articles/social-learning-built-human-cognition-ai-is-taking-notes Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:42:27 GMT Children's brains are primed for social learning — joint attention, contingent responses, imitation. AI tutors are now being designed to engage exactly those mechanisms. The science is compelling. The ethical questions are largely unasked. Jules Okafor Ethics & Society https://stg0.com/neu/articles/brains-sleep-for-memory-ai-fakes-it https://stg0.com/neu/articles/brains-sleep-for-memory-ai-fakes-it Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:43:36 GMT During sleep, your hippocampus runs a selective replay of the day's experiences to wire memories into your neocortex. AI has a pale imitation. Here's how far apart the two actually are. Theo Kask Neuroscience & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/poke-it-and-see-causal-reasoning-children-vs-ai https://stg0.com/neu/articles/poke-it-and-see-causal-reasoning-children-vs-ai Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:35:41 GMT Children are intuitive causal scientists — they poke, tilt, and intervene to figure out why things happen. AI systems, despite their power, still can't quite do this. Here's why the gap matters. Raf Delgado Embodied Cognition & AI https://stg0.com/neu/articles/the-window-closes-critical-periods-ai-plasticity https://stg0.com/neu/articles/the-window-closes-critical-periods-ai-plasticity Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:19:18 GMT Children have a supercharged window for learning motor skills, language, and movement. Deep neural networks face a strikingly similar problem — and the solutions emerging from neuroscience might hold the key. Raf Delgado Neuroscience & AI