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AI learns from the products of thinking, not thought itself. That’s a problem for machines – and for us

By Michael Richardson, Professor, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University

Working with the traces of thought instead of the process of thinking means AI systems are limited – and they limit their users, too.

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