AI Behaves More Like a Brain Than a Database — Cognitive Science’s Role in Its Origin Story Helps Explain Why
Two cognitive scientists argue that modern AI behaves more like a brain than a database, and that its origin story explains why. We trace the psychology behind neural networks from Hebb and Rosenblatt’s perceptron to backpropagation, check the primary sources, show how research on human memory explains AI hallucinations, inconsistent answers and sycophancy, and set out practical rules for using these systems at work.
