Anil Ananthaswamy
Viewpoint: Can AI chatbots understand the words they’re processing?
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words ...
Why brains are excellent ‘prediction machines’
How our brain, a three-pound mass of tissue encased within a bony skull, creates perceptions from sensations is a long-standing ...
Do our brains predict how we think? Psychedelics may help answer that question
“Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the ...
Why does the brain have an area for recognizing objects in general but also for faces in particular? Neural networks could provide answers
[Neuroscientists James DiCarlo and Daniel Yamins] are part of a coterie of neuroscientists using deep neural networks to make sense ...
Matrix redux: It’s actually possible that we are virtual beings living in an AI computer simulation
Some have tried to identify ways in which we can discern if we are simulated beings. Others have attempted to ...
Pangalactic intelligence: Here’s a guess about how many aliens in the universe
[I]n excess of four billion years ago, practically as soon as our planet had sufficiently cooled from its fiery formation, ...
