Large Language Models display an uncanny ability to construct human-sounding speech, and can synthesize concepts in novel ways. Is this […]
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The connectome is the wiring diagram of a brain, a big matrix that tells us what neurons talk to what
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It’s become increasingly clear that the Turing Test — determining whether human interlocutors can tell whether a conversation is being
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Game theory is a way of quantitatively describing what happens any time one thing interacts with another thing, when both
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Why are people wrong all the time, anyway? Is it because we human beings are too good at being irrational,
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The human brain is extremely complicated, but decades of careful neuroscientific research have revealed quite a bit about how it
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