Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

Researchers reveal how modeling the human brain’s hidden wiring could push AI beyond its current limits into human-like ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have grown a first-of-its-kind organoid mimicking an entire human brain, complete with rudimentary blood vessels and neural activity. This new "multi-region brain organoid" ...

These could help us move away from animal testing in drug discovery and open the door to personalized medicine.

While today’s generative AI tools and LLMs are powerful enough to process hundreds of thousands of words simultaneously, the human brain’s language areas process words serially, or one at a time.