Tag results for: brains and behavior
A Virtual Social Life Is Possible with Brain-Machine Interfaces
A major goal of the field of neuroprosthetics has focused on improving the lives of paralyzed patients by restoring their lost real-world abilities. One example was the 2012 work...
Conscious Machines May Never Be Possible
In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became convinced that the AI program he’d been working on—LaMDA—had developed not only intelligence but also consciousness. LaMDA is...
Empathy in the Age of AI
If you think your dog loves you, you’re a fool. If you feel a kinship with a tree, you’re a hippie. And if you over-empathize with a wild...
Collective Mental Time Travel Can Influence the Future
We’re often told to “be here now.” Yet the mind is rarely tethered in place. We take mental trips to our past, revisiting what happened yesterday or when...
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial intelligence systems have been taught using a huge inventory of labeled data. An image might be labeled “tabby...
Why Therapy Is Broken
Even for people who have the time and money to choose, it’s hard to know what to look for. In the absence of a referral or personal recommendation,...
