The human brain has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is larger than any other in relation to body size. Large animals such as whales and elephants have larger brains in absolute terms, but when measured using the encephalization quotient which compensates for body size, the human brain is almost twice as large as the brain of the bottlenose dolphin, and three times as large as the brain of a chimpanzee.
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AI’s key to true intelligence is learning how to forget
AI has to strategically forget data while keeping the necessary concepts stored, just like a human, instead of overwriting ...
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Brain science’s biggest roadblock: Collecting better data without killing people
Historically, there has been no safe, non-invasive and/or efficient method with deep penetration for modulating the human ...
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Scientists may have found the missing link between brain matter and consciousness
A team of researchers from Germany and Greece recently identified several new properties of the human brain that could explain ...
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Why zero gravity is bad for our brains
NASA has made a commitment to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. This is an ambitious goal when you think that a typical round ...
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Lab-grown mini brains could soon outsmart us
The cutting-edge method of growing clusters of cells that organize themselves into mini versions of human brains in the lab ...
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Neurons — a fuckton of them — are what make us smarter than other animals
Here’s something new to consider being thankful for at the dinner table: the long evolutionary journey that gave you your ...
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The science behind why no one laughs at our jokes
How do you like the following joke from Sumeria in about 1900BC? “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; ...
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Mini lab-grown brains reveal when humans stopped being apes
Humans diverged from chimpanzees and other great apes roughly 6m years ago. But despite us being closely related, human brains ...
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Implanting AI chips in your mind could cause you to lose yourself, says scientist
AI-based enhancements could be used to supplement neural activity, but if theyreplace normal functioning neural tissue, this ...
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We might never achieve general AIs — but it's important that we try
There are many parallels between self-driving car and artificial intelligence. They are goals that, the closer we get to ...
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Researchers invent multiplayer Tetris game controlled by brainwaves
A team of scientists from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method by which three ...
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Grand theft consciousness: How quantum algorithms will backdoor human-level AI
The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, as the legend goes, was invented when two oblivious young people walking around eating boring ...
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AI won’t destroy us, it’ll make us smarter
A number of academics and tech entrepreneurs agree: computer intelligence will one day meet and exceed human intelligence. ...
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Researchers developed algorithms that mimic the human brain (and the results don't suck)
Researchers are kicking it old school with new biologically-feasible algorithms that appear to be able to hold their own ...
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This trippy '80s video effect might help explain consciousness
Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest ...
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Moving beyond 'all models are wrong' and into rational AI
Can AI ever be "rational"? We examine work discussing the idea of AI that can surpass human's limited ability for rational ...
