SMRTR AIJul 15, 2026Wired

AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet

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Babies learn to understand the world far more efficiently than today's most powerful AI systems, and researchers want to know why. A new test called EgoBabyVLM, developed by Meta, Stanford, and other institutions, challenges AI models to learn from infant head-camera footage, and current models fail badly. Scientists believe building more baby-like AI could make future models cheaper, less energy-hungry, and better suited for robotics.

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