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Why is this interesting?

The recent eye-popping advances in AI have come from models that scan huge datasets, either generated by humans (e.g. “all competitive Go games” or “all the text we could find on the web”) or by computer (“the AI plays itself a billion times”), and imitating the patterns in that dataset — with no underlying model of meaning, no experience to check against, no underlying theory formation, just parroting.
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