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pith:SQ2TP2Y6

pith:2023:SQ2TP2Y6UAYE54M4BSR6Q437F2

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Artificial intelligence is algorithmic mimicry: why artificial "agents" are not (and won't be) proper agents

Johannes Jaeger

arxiv:2307.07515 v4 · 2023-06-27 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:50:45.983158Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

943537eb1ea0304ef19c0ca3e8737f2ebd0f12381820887bd872cfe1285e9c53

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arxiv: 2307.07515 · arxiv_version: 2307.07515v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.07515 · pith_short_12: SQ2TP2Y6UAYE · pith_short_16: SQ2TP2Y6UAYE54M4 · pith_short_8: SQ2TP2Y6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SQ2TP2Y6UAYE54M4BSR6Q437F2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 943537eb1ea0304ef19c0ca3e8737f2ebd0f12381820887bd872cfe1285e9c53

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-27T19:25:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "943d7f7633800918921ef7a974939a6a96dd7293b257a1d4cd5fbf02329a92e6"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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