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Didier Camilo Olarte Gonzalez, PhD Student in Experimental Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

EXPLAINED: Why ai cannot think like humans do | Rare Historical Photos

When a human picks up a coffee cup, we use predictive processing based on our understanding of the world. For a robot, picking up a cup requires extensive training and simulation. (Unsplash)

Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have become remarkably good at generating text and ideas that seem profoundly human. Chatbots powered by large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini and Perplexity AI can write poems, brainstorm and find solutions to complex problems.

The developers of these products drew heavily on the human brain for inspiration, creating artificial neural networks based on the workings of human neurons. Their systems now produce outputs that often resemble the outputs of human thinking.

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