For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

AI produces language without the memory, experience, or stakes of a human mind. Anti-intelligence describes language generated without a life behind it. The real shift isn’t smarter machines, it’s ...

AI pioneer Yann LeCun rejects superintelligence hype, arguing today’s AI amplifies human knowledge but still can’t match our real-world understanding.

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For generations, humans have congratulated themselves on being the planet’s most advanced species. We point to our cities, our technologies, our sciences, and our global reach as proof of superior ...

As AI enters mainstream business operations, we're entering a transformative era of human-AI collaboration. The future workplace will be defined not by humans versus machines but by cooperation ...

I worry that at the time when they should be developing their own voices, they’re being told they don’t need to bother. AI writes for us, reads for us, thinks for us. It replaces our voice with its ...

Everyone is talking about intelligent agents these days, but I have to admit I’m not totally convinced. The whole world is raving about how important and unique these things are, and I’m just not sold ...

When the lines blur between man and machine, you’re looking at artificial general intelligence (AGI). Unlike its counterpart, artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), which is the use of AI for solving ...

In his book "One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind" (Prometheus/Swift Press, 2025), New York University neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin traces the evolution of human ...