The Data Efficiency Chasm: Why Children Outlearn AI—and What It Means for the Future of Cognition
Executive Overview For the better part of 100,000 years, humanity held an absolute monopoly on complex linguistic fluency. Throughout human history, only one biological entity in the universe was capable of mapping the abstract, infinite structures of language from raw sensory experience: the human child. Today, that monopoly has ended. Following the breakout success of…