UC Merced Magazine | Volume XX, Issue VI

What Artificial Intelligence Tells Us About Ourselves

COVER STORY

UC Merced student Kahilan Skiba, manager of Professor Colin Holbrook's EvoLab, with one of the lab's robots, Ameca

By Jody Murray One of the remarkable things about arti cial intelligence is how it can provide a deeper understanding of natural intelligence: ours. We talked to faculty in UC Merced’s Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences about the intersection of

AI and “cog sci.” Department faculty teach and study how people process information, combining aspects of psychology, computer science, neuroscience, linguistics and philosophy. Here are some examples of what we are learning about ourselves and about our evolving relationships with AI.

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