How AI is testing the boundaries of human intelligence
BBCHow AI is testing the boundaries of human intelligence Estudio Santa Rita Welcome to AI v the Mind, a new series from the BBC that will explore the limits of artificial intelligence by pitting it against the most powerful thinking machines on the planet – the human brain. On a fundamental level, much of human cognition centres around prediction, too, Pitkow says, but the mind is built for levels of reasoning, flexibility, creativity and abstract thinking that AI still hasn't replicated. AI works well enough that conversations with chatbots, like ChatGPT or Google's Gemini, can feel like talking to a real human being who can deliver plausible – if often inaccurate – answers to any question. We will pit a human expert against an AI tool on key tasks – can a machine write a better joke than a professional comedian, or unpick a moral conundrum more elegantly than a philosopher?