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

Ran in the Morning edition of LivePulse, Friday, October 23, 2026
Original reporting: MIT News AI · Adam Zewe | MIT News, 2026-10-23

To mimic creative thinking, these AI pioneers intentionally injected randomness into algorithms designed to deterministically solve problems, Lindquist writes in a new paper that appears in the journal Past and Present. In the paper, he traces the origins of AI hallucinations back to this early research and suggests there will be inevitable tradeoffs between creativity and predictability when trying to build machines that mimic human behavior.

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