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Moving Beyond Mimicry in Artificial Intelligence


Moving Beyond Mimicry in Artificial Intelligence
What makes pre-trained AI models so impressive—and potentially harmful.
Raphaël Millière
July 1, 2022


“Sufficiently advanced mimicry is virtually indistinguishable from intelligent behavior—and therein lies the difficulty…. Can large pre-trained models really offer more than a simulacrum of intelligent behavior?”