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Optimal Strategies for Decision-Making and their Neural Basis

Understanding how animals and humans make decisions is one of the key questions in neuroscience, economics and artificial intelligence. Decisions come in all sort of flavors but, ... Read all

Comment: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Read by Prof. Hertog It is not clear whether intelligence has any long-term survival value. Bacteria multiply and flourish without it. However, intelligence is central to what it ... Read all

The Cerebral Cortex: An Evolutionary Breakthrough

Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society; Max Planck Institute for Brain Research; Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am ... Read all

Artificial Intelligence – Big Achievements and Huge Questions Viewed from Mathematics

Introduction Mathematical algorithms have probably been around for more than 4000 years, as suggested by the famous YBC7289 clay tablet (dated 1600 BC or earlier), displaying an ... Read all

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