🐀🤖 Rats preview paths, chimps bluff rivals, AI scores on empathy probes without empathy📄Read the article
🎬 What you probably do not know yet
- When a rat pauses at a maze junction, its brain cells fire in a sequence matching the paths it could take, simulating the future before it moves.
- Animals can experience regret. When they make a bad choice, their brain replays the better option they walked away from to update their future strategy.
- Chimps play complex mind games, like pretending not to see hidden food so a rival will not steal it.
- AI models can pass tests designed to measure human social awareness, even though they lack the brain circuits that actually understand other minds.
🎯 What you will have after
A clear picture of how the brain evolved from simple prediction to complex social simulation, and why today’s AI might score high on our tests while thinking nothing like us. Max Bennett connects neuroscience, animal behavior, and AI into one fascinating timeline.