
Rhythm Is a Body Problem
Babies keep time before they can walk. AI generates music by counting tokens. The gap between these two things reveals something fundamental about what rhythm actually is — and why closing it matters.
Raf Delgado·4 articles

Babies keep time before they can walk. AI generates music by counting tokens. The gap between these two things reveals something fundamental about what rhythm actually is — and why closing it matters.
Raf Delgado·
Transformers compute attention over millions of tokens simultaneously. Children pay attention through their bodies, their predictions, their mistakes. The gap between the two reveals something deep about what attention actually is — and why embodied AI keeps failing in kitchens.
Raf Delgado·
During sleep, your hippocampus runs a selective replay of the day's experiences to wire memories into your neocortex. AI has a pale imitation. Here's how far apart the two actually are.
Theo Kask·
Children have a supercharged window for learning motor skills, language, and movement. Deep neural networks face a strikingly similar problem — and the solutions emerging from neuroscience might hold the key.
Raf Delgado·