Neuroscience
Researchers warn that AI capabilities are increasingly discovered rather than designed, and that the window to understand how these black-box systems reason is closing as their influence grows.
An Indian research team proposes pairing AI with two dozen brain structures so the system develops a personality, sleeps, dreams and eventually dies — a brain-mirroring route to AGI distinct from neuromorphic computing.
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