Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about

Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (and vice versa) | Surya Ganguli

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The powerful new generation of AI tools that has come out over the past few years — DALL-E, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and the rest — have blown away our old ideas about what AI can do and raised questions about what it means for computers to start acting... intelligent?This week, we ask what the rise of these systems might teach us about our own biological intelligence — and vice versa. What does modern neuroscience have to say about how AI could become as flexible, efficient, and resili...

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