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Reuben Cohn-Gordon is an AI researcher and writer who is soon starting a postdoctoral position at the University of British Columbia in Bayesian inference and machine learning. The phrase “mere pattern recognition” is often used to describe the difference between true understanding and a shallow surface-level trick that gives the impression of understanding. This dichotomy is embodied by the difference between an echo and Echo, a figure from Greek myths made famous in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”.