What have we learned about artificial intelligence from studying the brain?

Journal: Biological cybernetics
PMID:

Abstract

Neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) share a long, intertwined history. It has been argued that discoveries in neuroscience were (and continue to be) instrumental in driving the development of new AI technology. Scrutinizing these historical claims yields a more nuanced story, where AI researchers were loosely inspired by the brain, but ideas flowed mostly in the other direction.

Authors

  • Samuel J Gershman
    Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. gershman@fas.harvard.edu horvitz@microsoft.com jbt@mit.edu.