Tag results for: brains and behavior
Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
Chatbots are now a routine part of everyday life, even if artificial intelligence researchers are not always sure how the programs will behave.A new study shows that the...
Neural Imaging Reveals Secret Conversational Cues
Studying human conversations isn’t a simple challenge. For instance, when humans start to talk to one another in a conversation, they coordinate their speech very tightly—people very rarely...
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...
