Researchers claim their AI model simulates the human mind. Others are skeptical
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 10:27
in Psychology & Sociology
By training a large language model (LLM) on a vast data set of human behavior, researchers say they have built an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can mimic a human mind. In a paper published today in Nature, they report that their model, Centaur, can “predict and simulate” human behavior in any experiment that can be written out in natural language. But other scientists raise their eyebrows at the claim. “I think there’s going to be a big portion of the scientific community that will view this paper very skeptically and be very harsh on it,” says Blake Richards, a computational neuroscientist at McGill University and Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. He and others say...