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Human children and AI now both achieve perfect language fluency

For over 100,000 years, only human children could learn language to perfect fluency. Now, four years after ChatGPT's release, AI has also reached this level of language learning.

Source: MIT Technology Review AI · technologyreview.com Published 2026-08-24T09:00:00+00:00 Detected 2026-08-24T17:17:49+00:00
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For over 100,000 years, only human children could learn language to perfect fluency. Now, four years after ChatGPT's release, AI has also reached this level of language learning.

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People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child. Now there are two. Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…

This development marks a significant milestone in AI's language capabilities, matching a uniquely human skill. Understanding how children learn language compared to AI remains an open question.

Signal Strength 95% Technical label RISING Public Interest 40 Category PRODUCT UPDATE Reader Depth GENERAL Event context 1 source

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