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Button-pushing explorers: How to grasp that AI agents can do amazing things while knowing nothing

By Ji Y. Son, Professor of Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles
Alice Xu, Ph.D. Student in Developmental Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Today’s AI systems are powerful, and it’s natural to see them as having humanlike intelligence. Shaking that illusion is important – and difficult to do.

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