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Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing

February 17, 2023

A photograph of a monkey inspecting its reflection in the mirror. — Who’s that in the mirror? | Image: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP via Getty Images

AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient.

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