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·April 24, 2025·4 min read

AI Still Falls Short in Understanding Human Social Interactions

Humans significantly outperform AI models in interpreting dynamic social interactions, a skill critical for technologies like autonomous vehicles and assistive robots. In a new study, participants reliably judged short videos of social scenes, while over 350 AI models struggled to match human accuracy or predict brain responses.

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·April 23, 2025·4 min read

People Worry More About Today’s AI Harms Than Future Catastrophes

A new study finds that people are more concerned about the immediate risks of artificial intelligence—like job loss, bias, and disinformation—than they are about hypothetical future threats to humanity. Researchers exposed over 10,000 participants to different AI narratives and found that, while future catastrophes raise concern, real-world present dangers resonate more strongly.

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·April 22, 2025·5 min read

AI Teaches Robots Tasks from a Single How-To Video

Researchers have developed RHyME, an AI-powered system that enables robots to learn complex tasks by watching a single human demonstration video. Traditional robots struggle with unpredictable scenarios and require extensive training data, but RHyME allows robots to adapt by drawing on previous video knowledge.

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·April 22, 2025·6 min read

Smart Sticker Reads Real Emotions Beneath the Surface

A new stretchable, rechargeable sticker developed by researchers can detect authentic emotional states by measuring physiological signals like heart rate, skin temperature, and humidity, even when facial expressions are misleading. The wearable patch transmits real-time data to mobile devices, helping health providers assess mental health remotely.

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·April 18, 2025·5 min read

AI Reveals What Keeps People Committed to Exercise

A new study has used machine learning to identify the key predictors of physical activity adherence, analyzing data from nearly 12,000 individuals. The research found that time spent sitting, gender, and education level were the strongest indicators of whether someone met weekly exercise guidelines.

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·April 16, 2025·5 min read

AI Tool Predicts Toxic Protein Structures Behind Brain Disorders

A new AI tool called RibbonFold is revolutionizing how scientists understand misfolded proteins linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Unlike existing tools such as AlphaFold, which predict correctly folded proteins, RibbonFold is specifically designed to model the twisted, ribbonlike shapes of amyloid fibrils that accumulate in neurodegenerative diseases.

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·April 16, 2025·4 min read

Realistic AI Avatars Boost Trust in Science Communication

AI-generated avatars are increasingly used to deliver science content on platforms like TikTok, raising questions about how their appearance affects viewer trust. A new study tested whether avatar realism and gender influenced perceived trustworthiness among nearly 500 participants.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·April 13, 2025·5 min read

How Psychology Has Shaped, and Continues to Shape, AI

Psychology has been instrumental in the evolution of artificial intelligence, offering foundational insights into learning, cognition, and behavior that have shaped key AI technologies. From early neural networks based on Hebbian learning to modern deep learning and metacognition, psychological theories continue to inform AI’s development.

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·April 12, 2025·5 min read

What Are Thoughts? Exploring the Mystery of the Mind

The nature of thought remains one of philosophy's greatest mysteries, with deep implications for neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Two main theories compete: materialism, which sees thoughts as brain states, and dualism, which holds that thoughts are non-physical entities. While neuroscience has mapped correlations between brain activity and mental states, it cannot yet explain how physical matter gives rise to conscious experience.

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·April 11, 2025·5 min read

When AI Becomes a Lover: The Ethics of Human-AI Relationships

As AI technologies grow more human-like, some people are forming deep, long-term emotional bonds with them, even engaging in non-legally binding marriages. A recent opinion paper explores the ethical risks of such relationships, including their potential to undermine human-human connections and provide dangerous or manipulative advice.

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·April 11, 2025·8 min read

AI Rewrites Workouts for Children With Autism and ADHD

Researchers have adapted a children’s exercise program to better serve neurodivergent learners using AI-generated instructions. By leveraging ChatGPT, the team simplified and clarified movement directions in over 500 activities from the InPACT video series.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 10, 2025·7 min read

Digital Mouse Brain Twin Offers New Window Into Neural Function

Researchers have created an AI-powered "digital twin" of the mouse visual cortex that can accurately simulate neural responses to visual input, including movies. Unlike earlier models, this digital twin generalizes beyond its training data, predicting neuron behavior and structure with remarkable accuracy.