After a five-year stint that involved death, divorce and cancer, I was ready to try anything — and that included ‘soul ...

One notable missing feature in most ANN models is top-down feedback, i.e. projections from higher-order layers to lower-order layers in the network. Top-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain, and ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, believes LLMs are doomed due to their inability to represent the high-dimensional ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different to our closest relatives. Our ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft has joined forces with a Swiss start-up to deploy a new artificial intelligence model that simulates ...

and is controlled by a set of interconnected forebrain regions in the dorsal ventricular ridge (DVR)—the avian equivalent of the mammalian neocortex. Within this network, the premotor region HVC ...