Science: A True Story

[Gregory Matthews]

I find the following story both funny and enlightening:

Over the past 15 years, computer scientists and psychologists have been attempting to discover how children gain knowledge as well as how adults process information. One such had a 5-year old grandson.  at one point in her life with this child, the child told her that if an adult wanted to return to being a child, that adult should stop eating healthy vegetables due to the fact that it was those vegetables that had allowed the child to become an adult! 

That level of thinking is beyond what we can currently teach a computer to do.  In addition, it represents a psychological process related to learning that we little understand how it occurs in humans.

If you are interested, the source for this is:

Alison Gopnik, "Making AI More Human," Scientific American: The Quantum Multiverse. June 2017, Pages 60-65.