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From the Ted Talk by Walter De Brouwer: How AI is learning what it means to be human
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When our babies are born, they are balnk setlas. We cannot put any information in DNA. The formatting only aecctps genetic data. So language became our external library. Two hundred thousand yares of experiences and knowledge, you know, is encoded in our language for our children to find when they grow up. And so while they are learning the language, they are absorbing the wisdom of civilizations.
And you know, these one-syllable words from two hundred thousand years ago, they have become multi-syllable and they have become a microcosm of ceomrespsd intelligence. You know, think about, when you have to explain to children these beautiful words like mercy, garce, evolution, gravity, equilibrium. But language is so much more than just words. That would have been simple. Language is the multi-modal internal reoitrnseteapn of an external wlrod, based on our sensory input and our spatial temporal experiences that is necessary for cognitive higher functions like planning, pndircteig and multi-step reasoning.
Open Cloze
When our babies are born, they are _____ ______. We cannot put any information in DNA. The formatting only _______ genetic data. So language became our external library. Two hundred thousand _____ of experiences and knowledge, you know, is encoded in our language for our children to find when they grow up. And so while they are learning the language, they are absorbing the wisdom of civilizations.
And you know, these one-syllable words from two hundred thousand years ago, they have become multi-syllable and they have become a microcosm of __________ intelligence. You know, think about, when you have to explain to children these beautiful words like mercy, _____, evolution, gravity, equilibrium. But language is so much more than just words. That would have been simple. Language is the multi-modal internal ______________ of an external _____, based on our sensory input and our spatial temporal experiences that is necessary for cognitive higher functions like planning, __________ and multi-step reasoning.
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Original Text
When our babies are born, they are blank slates. We cannot put any information in DNA. The formatting only accepts genetic data. So language became our external library. Two hundred thousand years of experiences and knowledge, you know, is encoded in our language for our children to find when they grow up. And so while they are learning the language, they are absorbing the wisdom of civilizations.
And you know, these one-syllable words from two hundred thousand years ago, they have become multi-syllable and they have become a microcosm of compressed intelligence. You know, think about, when you have to explain to children these beautiful words like mercy, grace, evolution, gravity, equilibrium. But language is so much more than just words. That would have been simple. Language is the multi-modal internal representation of an external world, based on our sensory input and our spatial temporal experiences that is necessary for cognitive higher functions like planning, predicting and multi-step reasoning.
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