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How do babies learn words? An AI experiment may hold clues

An artificial intelligence model learned words from audio and video of a baby

A baby sits on a white couch reading a book next to a teddy bear.

Babies are prodigious language learners. After being fed the sights and words that a baby encountered, an artificial intelligence model picked up its first words.

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By Laura Sanders

The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words.

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