The growth of language is a shared endeavour. It almost goes without saying that the evolution of...
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It’s an accident that we use the alphabet. John Darnell et al published a landmark paper in 2006....
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AI teaches neuroscience about reward signalling. Computer scientists have successfully developed...
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Emotions are critical for action selection in both humans and robots. It is tempting to think that...
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Dopamine has numerous ways in which to express itself. Decision-making in the brain is a complex...
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Dopamine system has two distinct functions: learning and motivation. Dopamine is produced...
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Research sheds fresh light on feats of social insects. There is a growing tendency to look at the...
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Introducing the next big chapter in AI development. It is easy to be carried away with today’s...
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The stochastic nature of neuronal networks in decision making. An intriguing experiment shows that...
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Hippocampus needed for consolidation of novel-object memories. Sawangjit et al start with the...
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Yet another example of intelligence from the New Caledonian crow. A favourite for researchers, New...
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Attention needed for consciousness, not vice versa. Is attention synonymous with consciousness?...
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How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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Homing in on the conceptual design of a thinking machine. There is growing agreement all round on...
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Planning strategies in the real world takes imagination. A team at DeepMind has developed an...
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Could equilibrium propagation be nature’s way of doing backpropagation? This paper is absolutely...
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AIs can now understand, or at least read, other AIs’ minds. DeepMind’s new Theory of Mind-net AI...
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Interesting new research on how to effect few-shot learning. AI researchers are making progress in...
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Basic and non-basic emotions: more research needed. This is a thought-provoking paper on the state...
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Turning the ego and the id upside down. Solms rests his theory on the observation that...
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