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Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture

A cross-disciplinary discussion on how children learn, framed by AI and the nature-nurture debate.

EducationPodcast episodeai as cultural technologybayesian updatingchild developmentlearning from limited datanature vs nurturescientific reasoningAlison GopnikTyler Cowen

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