Good article describing how neuroscience is looking to artificial intelligence to solve some longstanding issues in the field. They're doing it because they can: "They trained a battery of different language models on those same sentences, and created a mapping model between human and machine neural activity. And they discovered that the networks not only produced humanlike text, but did so in a broadly humanlike way." This, in turn, tells us some things about artificial intelligence. "When they hallucinate information, it is not their failing, but ours: We are forcing them to answer a query that is outside their narrow competence... One of the things we've really learned from the last 20 years of cognitive neuroscience is that language and thought are separate in the brain."
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