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Why children still outlearn AI in language acquisition
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MIT Technology Review reports that, historically, only human children could learn a language to perfect fluency, but recent advances have produced machines that can now approximate that ability. The article explores why children still outperform AI in language learning despite four years of rapid progress since ChatGPT’s release.
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Understanding why children outperform AI could shape safer, more effective language-learning models and education-tech policy.
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- Only human children were previously known to achieve perfect fluency in a language, but recent AI systems now also approach that capability. [1]
- The piece links the emergence of these advanced language-capable machines to four years of progress since ChatGPT’s release. [1]
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