Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications is rapidly changing everyday life, underscoring the need to understand its social intelligence. A new AI study examines the social ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model called Centaur can predict and simulate human thought and behavior better than any past models, opening the door for cutting-edge research applications. When ...

Throughout their everyday lives, humans are typically required to make a wide range of decisions, which can impact their well-being, health, social connections, and finances. Understanding the human ...

Stylistic examples of the net-benefit curve for the linear threshold model (in green) and the bi-threshold model (in blue). A model of human behavior finds that people will share information if enough ...

A large part of what we’re doing with large language models involves looking at human behavior. That might get lost in some conversations about AI, but it’s really central to a lot of the work that’s ...

The paper addresses the AI shutdown problem, a long-standing challenge in AI safety. The shutdown problem asks how to design AI systems that will shut down when instructed, will not try to prevent ...

Without a doubt, Sigmund Freud has had more of a lasting influence on the world than any other psychologist. Yet another major movie about his life and work was recently released (Freud's Last Session ...