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·May 13, 2025·5 min read

AI LLMs Learn Like Us, But Without Abstract Thought

Summary: A new study finds that large language models (LLMs), like GPT-J, generate words not by applying fixed grammatical rules,...

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·October 22, 2024·5 min read

How AI is Reshaping Human Thought and Decision-Making

A new study introduces "System 0," a cognitive framework where artificial intelligence (AI) enhances human thinking by processing vast data, complementing our natural intuition (System 1) and analytical thinking (System 2). However, this external thinking system poses risks, such as over-reliance on AI and a potential loss of cognitive autonomy.

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·July 16, 2024·5 min read

Breaking Silence: Giving the Silent a Voice Through Thoughts

Researchers enabled a silent person to produce speech using thought alone. Depth electrodes in the participant's brain transmitted electrical signals to a computer, which then vocalized imagined syllables. This technology offers hope for paralyzed individuals to regain speech. The study marks a significant step towards brain-computer interfaces for voluntary communication.

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·September 27, 2022·4 min read

What Brings Our Senses and Thoughts Together?

Study reveals the role the neocortex plays in our ability to think, recall events, and make decisions.

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·May 23, 2021·5 min read

Thoughts Bring Prostheses to Life

Using virtual reality technology, researchers found the faulty alignment of prosthetics resulted in a measurable loss in performance for users.

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·November 24, 2020·4 min read

AI Helps Scientists Understand Brain Activity Behind Thoughts

A new AI system helps researchers better understand the brain computations that underlie thought.

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·August 10, 2020·5 min read

That Little Voice in Your Head, If You Have It, May Be Aligning Your Thoughts

A significant number of people feel their thoughts take on the form of an inner voice, a new study reports.

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·August 4, 2020·3 min read

How Thoughts Could One Day Control Electronic Prostheses, Wirelessly

A new wireless intracortical brain-computer interface neuroprosthesis is capable of gathering and transmitting accurate neural signals, using a tenth of the power required by current wire-enabled systems.

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·July 14, 2020·4 min read

Discovery of “Thought Worms” Opens Window to the Mind

Researchers have discovered a brain-based marker for new thoughts, reporting people experience more than 6,000 thoughts per day. The study reports a new method that can detect indirectly when one thought ends and another begins.

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·September 24, 2019·4 min read

Mice, like humans, fidget when deep in thought

Just like humans, mice fidget more while deep in thought.

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·June 27, 2019·4 min read

Could prosthetic limbs one day be controlled by human thought?

Having identified a new, simpler way to study neural activity, researchers believe they are on track to creating a compact, low power and potentially wireless brain sensor that could make thought-controlled prosthetic limbs ubiquitous.