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Melanie Mitchell

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What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?

By Melanie Mitchell
December 16, 2021
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It’s simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine’s knowledge has proved difficult.

About the author

Melanie Mitchell is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of Complexity: A Guided Tour, which won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and her latest book is Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.

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