With an aim to bring convenience to human life, artificial intelligence (AI) is not only integrated into the functioning of one’s daily life, but it is also influencing what one’s life events may be. In this regard, and as suggested by a Turing test, AI must be further developed to understand human behavioral perspectives and cognitive processes. While studies in cognition and of the human nervous system have spawned AI technologies that mimic some functions of the human brain, replicating higher-level cognitive functions, such as developing personality and humor, identifying contextual biases, and fostering imagination, still remain elusive.

In Demystifying AI, I highlight a selection of current applications of principles in neuroscience to the development of artificial intelligence. I then apply some of these principles in a case study which uses descriptive text analysis to understand dreams in the fictional literature of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Click on the images below to learn more about these projects.