Scientist use 6-month-old baby named Sam to teach AI how humanity develops - amid fears tech could destroy us

Scientists trained an AI through the eyes of a baby in an effort to teach the tech how humanity develops - amid fears it could destroy us. Researchers at New York University strapped a headcam recorder to Sam when he was just six months old through his second birthday. The footage of 250,000 words and corresponding images was fed to an AI model, which learned how to recognize different objects similar to how Sam did. The AI developed its knowledge in the same way the child did - by observing the environment, listening to nearby people and connecting dots between what was seen and heard. The experiment also determined the connection between visual and linguistic representation in the development of a child.