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Q&A: How AI came to model the "messy" human mind
October 23, 2026
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news:

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Q&A: How AI came to model the "messy" human mind

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Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential for a machine that could think like a human, contends Benjamin Lindquist, an assistant professor in the MIT History Section, . . .

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