COGS 117Growing Minds: Babies, Brains, and Machines

4 units · COGS · UC San Diego

What would it take to build a robot that could learn like a human infant? This course explores the science of learning in natural and artificial minds. What comes easily to babies but is hard for machines, and vice versa? The course will explore connections between infant development, cognitive neuroscience, and advances in AI to understand how natural and artificial minds grow across topics such as perception, motor development, language, curiosity, and social cognition.