Comments about the article in Nature: This AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes

Following is a discussion about this article in Nature Vol 626 15 February 2024, by Elizabeth Gibney
To study the full text select this link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00288-1 In the last paragraph I explain my own opinion.

Reflection

Introduction

1. Baby’s-eye views

2. Lessons about learning

Real-world language learning is much richer and more varied than the AI experienced.
The researchers say that, because the AI is limited to training on still images and written text, it could not experience interactions that are inherent to a real baby’s life.
The AI struggled to learn the word ‘hand’, for example, which is usually learnt early in an infant’s life, says Vong.
“Babies have their own hands, they have a lot of experience with them. That’s definitely a missing component of our model.”