Bots and Beasts

Bots and BeastsBy: Paul Thagard An expert on the mind considers how animals and smart machines, like AI assistants and driverless cars, measure up to human intelligence. Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts, Paul Thagard looks at how

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