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Phys.org — Technology · October 24, 2026 · On the brief until November 7, 2026

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

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simulating human thought through injected randomness

Historian Benjamin Lindquist found that early computer engineers intentionally added randomness to neural networks to mimic human creativity. His research traces modern AI hallucinations back to mid-20th-century theories of the human mind. For scholars of cognition and history, this work shows that eliminating machine errors means sacrificing the unpredictability tied to creative thought.

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Instructors can examine the historical trade-off between suppressing machine hallucinations and preserving the randomness needed to simulate creative thinking.

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