Human vs AI Cognition
Discussions compare human intuitive understanding of physics, objects, patterns, and abstraction—often through childhood experience and physical interaction—to AI's statistical processing and limitations in true comprehension.
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Tangent to feeling numb to it - will it hinder children developing the understanding of physics, object permanence, etc. that our brains have?
Did you see a difference in ability to abstract and or learning speed ?
Yes, but it's a processing by association, not understanding.
Then you underestimate the human ability to recognize patterns.
No, I can't, because there's a lot more going on than just having recognized an object. How can we tell that it is cardboard? Or if we see someone throw a ball into the street, how can we get an idea of how much mass the ball has? Or any number of such scenarios... the answer is, we have a lifetime of experience of interacting with our environment. We've seen cardboard boxes, felt them, crushed them up and tossed them around. We've thrown balloons and rolled bowling balls. We
I'm not sure I think this illustrates different types of intelligences.For me, looking at the image, I have to suspend disbelief about a lot of things. This is a very simplified picture of a bus, lots of elements are missing/unrealistic, so I have to try to determine what missing things are part of the puzzle and which things are just coincidence. I think children would not be able to suspend their disbelief as quickly, and will instead immediately map the image to the real world ob
What kind of knowledge does a 14you have to parse the two sticks in the first icon easier vs. remembering some school trivia?
I think what OP is referring to with the bicycle example is that even when asked to draw a simple line drawing of a bike people connect the wrong pieces together in a way which makes no sense, while if they’re looking at a bike in front of them they can easily connect the proper components with lines.https://www.booooooom
I'm not sure "training" is the right way to think about it. Children don't train to identify objects, they quickly develop the ability to recognize objects and are able to correlate them with prior information that was retained and learned. Case in point: if you take a child born blind, give them the ability to see, they are immediately able to recognize and correlate objects around them.
The key here is abstraction, not statistics. You have seen other items fall and are able to abstract this and then apply it to the phone.