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Planes don’t flap their wings: does AI work like a brain?

11 mins | Feb 14, 2018

When an AI thinks, does it think like a human mind? Grace Lindsay, writing in Aeon magazine, looks at the design of the algorithms and neural networks underpinning the latest advances in artificial intelligence.

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