Kids are effectively 10M-parameter LLMs running at temperature 2.0
bronzeagepapi · x · 2026-09-29
A widely shared quip makes the case that children are basically tiny language models: 10M parameters of knowledge, but sampled at temperature 2.0 — highly stochastic outputs, wild tangents, and occasionally brilliant surprises.
It's a funny framing that uses LLM vocabulary to capture exactly why kids say such unpredictable things.
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