Part II: How Children Learn Once You Subtract Language: Statistical Learning, Causal Intervention, Curiosity & Buildable Healthcare AI Point Solutions Rather Than One Giant World Model

Children learn without labels, without feedback, and on almost no data. Healthcare AI still struggles with all three. Here is why the gap is a product opportunity.

In 1996, eight-month-olds extracted word boundaries from a two-minute speech stream with no cues except raw statistics. Same machinery works on shapes and tones. It is self-supervised learning…