AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science’s role in its origin story helps explain why

When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to reach for the ...
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Maggie Boden, cognitive scientist who foresaw the risks and potential of artificial intelligence

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maggie Boden: books included Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man (1977) and her 2006 magnum opus Mind As Machine: A History of ...
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How Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Are Intertwined

Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science are very much interrelated. AI was first coined in a proposal for a workshop that took place in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College. The workshop ...
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How Machines and Magnets Taught Science a New Way to Explain the World

A new historical analysis argues that cognitive science and statistical physics independently converged on a shared ...
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UC San Diego Alumnus Robert Glushko Honors Cognitive Science Pioneers with Endowed Chairs

A $4 million gift from alumnus Robert J. Glushko, Ph.D. ’79 and Pamela Samuelson will establish four endowed chairs in the Department of Cognitive Science in honor of Glushko’s UC San Diego mentors ...
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Is Cognitive Science Really Helping in the Classroom?

Modern classrooms are filled with the language of cognitive science. We talk about student engagement, working memory, attention, mindset, and cognitive load as if we can observe these things directly ...