People often wonder if computers make children smarter. Scientists are asking the reverse question: Can children make computers smarter? And the answer appears to be 'yes.' The researchers are tapping the cognitive smarts of babies, toddlers and preschoolers to program computers to think more like humans.
If replicated in machines, the computational models based on baby brainpower could give a major boost to artificial intelligence, which historically has had difficulty handling nuances and uncertainty, researchers said.