Understanding AI development through observing toddlers

Since six years ago, I have been blessed on having the privilege of understanding artificial intelligence development through toddlers (my nephew & niece). On my niece's two-year-old birthday, my sister had bought a box of hibernated butterflies for releasing during her birthday party. My sister unwrapped the box and put the butterflies into a netted box with fruit slices the day before, so the butterflies would be reenergized to get ready for the release. During the release, my two-year-old niece walked back and forth, pointing at the butterflies asking my husband whether those are bugs (蟲). Since my husband recognized butterflies belong to the category of bugs, so he answered her yes. My niece kept walking back and forth with her little feet walking towards a butterfly on the grass, we didn’t really know what was going on in her mind guessing perhaps she was trying to step onto it, and then she walked away as the butterfly was almost the same size of her little foot. Out of our expectations, while everyone was focusing on the butterflies, she suddenly picked up a big piece of rock and threw in a projectile towards the butterfly sitting on a piece of rock. Bingo! It landed right on top of the butterfly and broke one of its wings. The piece of rock was big and heavy to her, and in the past, she had tried to pick up one even smaller than this killer rock, she complained about its weight and asked her mother to carry it for her. She used to be a timid little girl as well. This time she crossed her comfort zone J, verified with my husband that those were bugs, based on her previous knowledge of getting rid of any bugs she encountered (e.g. ants…etc) when helping her grandma to water veggies in the backyard; therefore, by living out her inner potential of “楊門女將本色 J” she picked up the largest and heaviest piece of rock, aimed precisely, and threw it in an upward parabola motion onto the bug (butterfly) to kill it!