One of Centaur’s most interesting discoveries came when researchers compared its internal representations to human brain activity. Without ever being trained on neural data, the AI’s behavior ...

Once they trained Centaur, the researchers tested how well it had mimicked human psychology. In one set of trials, they showed Centaur some of the volunteer responses that it hadn’t seen before.

Centaur, by contrast, can simulate human behaviour across a spectrum of tasks — including gambling, memory games and problem-solving. During testing, it was even able to predict people’s ...