What Is Called Thinking?

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If Play is a Sign of Intelligence, AI is Unintelligent

If Play is a Sign of Intelligence, AI is Unintelligent

The Ontology of Othello, Toy Carrots, and Traffic Light Images

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Zohar Atkins
Jul 05, 2023
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Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing. - Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens

Last time I checked, if you ask an AI to identify the traffic lights in a set of pictures, it won’t distinguish between a painting of a traffic light and a …

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