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Re:Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action by Majestic121 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @08:21AM (#28423781)
It's the opposite : you assume that the natural world is smart, but they don't assume anything, they just test the hypothesis that dogs are smart, and in this way validate part of your assumption.

I think it's a better way to deal with things, as your assumption might not hold scrutiny very well : what is natural world ? Are worms part of it ? What about rocks ? Can we deduce from there that worms and rocks are able to distinguish intentional from non intentional actions ?

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Re:Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action by hutzlibu on Sunday September 05, 2021 @08:48AM (#28423960)
If you have ever written a game KI or something alike:

the most simple algorithms (few lines of code) can perceive the observer into thinking there is advanced KI at work.

Same might be the case with natural intelligence.

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Re:Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action by wizzwizz4 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @10:56AM (#28424801)
What does KI mean?
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Re:Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action by lwkl on Sunday September 05, 2021 @01:00PM (#28425751)
It means AI in German (Künstliche Intelligenz).
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Re:Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action by wizzwizz4 on Sunday September 05, 2021 @03:14PM (#28426903)
I never made that art / artificial connection before, but in retrospect it's obvious.
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Re:Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action by hutzlibu on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:54PM (#28436247)
Finding wordroots is fun and sometimes illuminating.
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