Medical News AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another’s shoes

Medical News AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another’s shoes

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19 July 2019

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Artificial intelligence has passed a classic theory of mind test used with chimpanzees. The test probes the ability to perceive the world from the view of another individual and so AIs with this skill could be better at cooperating and communicating with humans and each other.
AIs with theory of mind are key to building machines that can understand the world around them. In recent years, the skill has emerged in a robot whose memories are modelled on human brains and in DeepMind’s ToM-net, which understands that others can have false beliefs.

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