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The Animal-AI Olympics

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A new competition presents AI agents with cognition challenges to test their animal intelligence.

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This work was supported by the Leverhulme Trust and Templeton World Charity Foundation.

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  1. Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Matthew Crosby & Benjamin Beyret

  2. Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  3. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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Crosby, M., Beyret, B. & Halina, M. The Animal-AI Olympics. Nat Mach Intell 1, 257 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0050-3

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