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Who would win in a test of wits: a baby or an artificial intelligence? You might think you know the answer to this; certainly, decades worth of science fiction stories about sinister robots have indicated that the machines would have an advantage. But a recent discovery suggests that we might have been going about this all wrong and it might be time to start betting on the babies.

Thats the big takeaway from a new report at Gothamist, which recounts the findings of a recent NYU study. That study, titled Commonsense psychology in human infants and machines, pitted 11-month-old babies against what its authors dubbed state-of-the-art learning-driven neural-network models. What both groups were tested on was their sense of why people were doing certain things.

As the article explains, the 11-month-old babies were able to recognize goals and routines while observing a series of videos and showed surprise when those changed. The artificial intelligence, by comparison, had a harder time recognizing the same things.

The authors of the study view this as the first chapter in a much longer line of inquiry. In the papers abstract, they write that this work takes the first step in testing whether human knowledge and human-like artificial intelligence can be built from the foundations cognitive and developmental theories postulate. For those concerned about a potential robot uprising, this is encouraging news.

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