JamesAI is called "brain-like" all the time. A new York University study tested whether that's actually true by flipping the question: can brain activity predict what's inside an AI model?
Answer: not equally. AI uses internal strategies the brain doesn't appear to use.
This matters for AI being used in clinical research, autism studies, and beyond. Published in Nature Machine Intelligence.
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Rethinking brain-like artificial intelligence: New study reveals hidden mismatches
A new study by York University researchers has found a potential striking flaw in artificial intelligence (AI) models. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), a type of AI model built to solve vision tasks for computers, have surprisingly emerged as the current best understanding of how our own brain's visual system works, in the last decade. But does current AI really work like a primate brain?