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I wouldn't call anything those 3 have done 'innovative' either. Two of them were trained practically from birth (Gorden-Leavitt started acting when he was 4, Johanson was 9) to do a very specific task, repeatedly, rewarded when they do it right, with a costume to cover up the machines underneath. They read from a script, written by someone else. The human equivalent of AI. I'm not a fan of the rise of the machines either but this headline isn't selling me.