"Human social intelligence emerged through an extended evolutionary history involving cooperation, social learning, mindreading, language, and cultural transmission."
Whiten and Erdal examine evidence supporting the evolution of a distinctively human socio-cognitive niche formed through cooperation, egalitarianism, understanding other minds, language, and cumulative culture. Their evolutionary account supports the manuscript's comparison between millions of years of biological and social adaptation and the relatively short history of modern artificial intelligence research.
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