Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever suggested. A wave of new research is revealing hidden layers in the brain’s ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during childhood, settled into a stable form in early ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jason Alan Snyder is a technologist covering AI and innovation. New research shows brain-computer interfaces can decode inner ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

Previously, I mentioned what David Chalmers has called the "hard problem of consciousness," meaning the difficulty of explaining human consciousness in objective, scientific terms because of the ...

In a major step forward for cognitive science and artificial intelligence, researchers at Helmholtz Munich have introduced Centaur, an AI system that can simulate and predict human behavior with a ...

Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. A couple of years ago, I wrote about something I called the techno-agora. It's a way of thinking about how large language models were beginning to reshape group ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. It is not possible to understand the long-term future of artificial ...