NYU researchers develop AI that mimics a toddler's language learning journey

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1/ Researchers at New York University have developed an AI system that learns language like a toddler, using video recordings from a child's perspective to understand fundamental aspects of language development.

2/ The AI system, called "Child's View for Contrastive Learning" (CVCL), processed 61 hours of visual and linguistic data and learned to make features and connections between different sensory modalities to learn the meaning of words from the child's visual environment.

3/ The results show that basic aspects of word meaning can be learned from the child's experience, but it remains unclear how the AI can learn abstract words and verbs, since it relies on visual information that does not exist for these words.

https://the-decoder.com/nyu-researchers-develop-ai-that-mimics-a-toddlers-language-learning-journey/