“Cognitive Legos” give biological brains the upper hand in learning compared to AI (IMAGE)
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Princeton researchers found that a primate’s prefrontal cortex reuses modular “cognitive Legos” to solve related tasks, giving biological brains a flexibility that AI still lacks. The insight could help improve AI systems so they retain old skills while learning new ones.
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Adapted by Dan Vahaba (Princeton University), from “Brain Silhouette 2” (Littleolred, CC0 1.0, freesvg.org) and “Lego bricks” (Benjamin D. Esham, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons).
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