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Aug 19, 2026 8 min

Learning the Past Tense in AI

from Inside the Black Box: Cracking AI and Deep Learning Hosted by Arshavir Blackwell, PhD

This episode revisits the famous debate over whether language is learned through symbolic rules or distributed neural patterns, using the classic irregular verb U-shaped curve as the battleground. It then compares child language development with training snapshots from modern AI models, showing that transformers learn past tense in a strikingly different way: starting with the broad rule and gradually memorizing the exceptions.

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