Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence

Recently, one of the researchers at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab was taking her 4-year-old son for a walk through the campus. The little boy looked up at the famous campanile clock tower and exclaimed with surprise and puzzlement, "There's a clock way up there!" Then, after a few minutes, he thoughtfully explained, "I guess they put the clock up there so that the children couldn't reach it and break it." Everyone with a 4-year-old has similar stories of preschool creativity--charming, unexpected takes on the world and its mysteries that nevertheless have their own logic and sense. Suppose you ask a Large Language Artificial Intelligence (AI) model the same question: Why is there a clock on top of the campanile?