Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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2026-10-23 04:00 · MIT News AI
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

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