Source: Ben McLeod, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I got a note from Pam Lee who lives in Vancouver, Canada. She described some interesting behavior displayed by her 3-year-old Alaskan Malamute, Icy.

Source: Ben McLeod, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I got a note from Pam Lee who lives in Vancouver, Canada. She described some interesting behavior displayed by her 3-year-old Alaskan Malamute, Icy.

Artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI took inspiration from infants for its latest project, specifically the stunning ability for a newborn to mimic a person minutes after birth. The result is ...

Learning by imitation occurs from the simplest preverbal communication to the most complex adult expertise. It is the basis for much of our success as a species, but the benefits are less clear in ...

Mom says to do it, and although it's studying that I dislike, it looks fun like a game when I see my friends doing it. The child mimics the study a friend was doing with the teacher. Animals are no ...

Imitation learning can support safer scaling pathways. As models become more capable, their outputs continue to reflect human ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Nov., 1926), pp. 367-378 (12 pages) Imitation, which was formerly treated as an instinct, is now referred to another cause, but usually treated as a ...

On Friday the 31st of October 2025, M.Sc. Ville Tanskanen defends his PhD thesis on Machine Learning for Human Behavior: Understanding and Imitating Choices. The thesis is related to research done in ...

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