Welcome back. This week I interview Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor, author and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how ...

From an early age, children are very skilled in imitating the actions of others and are so motivated to do so that they will even copy actions for no reason. Imitation is part of what it means to be ...

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language models signal an ...

Artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI took inspiration from infants for its latest project, specifically the stunning ability for a newborn to mimic a person minutes after birth. The result is ...

The warning comes from a peer-reviewed study titled Personalised LLMs and the Risks of the Digital Twin Metaphor, published in AI & Society. The authors argue that personalized large language models ...

Humans appear to be unique in the extent upon which we rely on culture: on the tools, words and ideas we acquire from others. Through imitation and teaching, culture functions as a second inheritance ...

THE canon of affirmative reasoning, which may be said to form the text of this book, is expressed by the author as follows:—“That which is true of a thing is probably true of its like; the degree of ...

A new study compared children's capacity to imitate behavior with the same capacity of humans' closest living great ape relatives, the bonobos. The study found that bonobos do not copy actions as ...