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Thinking like animals or thinking like colleagues?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Daniel C. Dennett  and
Enoch Lambert
Daniel C. Dennett
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. daniel.dennett@tufts.eduenoch.lambert@gmail.comhttp://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/faculty.html
Enoch Lambert
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. daniel.dennett@tufts.eduenoch.lambert@gmail.comhttp://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/faculty.html
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Abstract

We comment on ways in which Lake et al. advance our understanding of the machinery of intelligence and offer suggestions. The first set concerns animal-level versus human-level intelligence. The second concerns the urgent need to address ethical issues when evaluating the state of artificial intelligence.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e263
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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