We built artificial intelligence first, then decided to do artificial psychology on it
round · x · 2026-09-04
A developer reflects that he got into artificial neural networks hoping we'd end up with artificial neuroscience on the way to artificial intelligence. Instead, the order flipped: we made the AI first, and now we're doing artificial psychology on it — a witty take on how the field ended up studying a black box's behavior after the fact.
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