{"id":234400,"date":"2026-04-01T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/rethinking-brain-like-artificial-intelligence-new-study-reveals-hidden-mismatches"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:12:47","slug":"rethinking-brain-like-artificial-intelligence-new-study-reveals-hidden-mismatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/rethinking-brain-like-artificial-intelligence-new-study-reveals-hidden-mismatches","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking brain-like artificial intelligence: New study reveals hidden mismatches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rethinking-brain-like-artificial-intelligence-new-study-reveals-hidden-mismatches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study by York University researchers has found a potential striking flaw in artificial intelligence (AI) models. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), a type of AI model built to solve vision tasks for computers, have surprisingly emerged as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annualreviews.org\/content\/journals\/10.1146\/annurev-vision-112823-030616\" target=\"_blank\">current best understanding<\/a> of how our own brain\u2019s visual system works, in the last decade. But does current AI really work like a primate brain?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial intelligence systems are often described as \u2018brain-like\u2019 because they can predict activity in parts of the brain that help us recognize objects,\u201d says York University Assistant Professor Kohitij Kar, senior author of a new study. \u201cUntil now, scientists mostly tested this in one direction. They asked whether AI models can predict brain activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this study, the researchers flipped the question\u2014if AI truly mirrors the brain, shouldn\u2019t brain activity also be able to predict what\u2019s happening inside the AI model?\u2014and developed a reverse predictivity test to find the answer. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42256-026-01204-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by York University researchers has found a potential striking flaw in artificial intelligence (AI) models. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), a type of AI model built to solve vision tasks for computers, have surprisingly emerged as the current best understanding of how our own brain\u2019s visual system works, in the last decade. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}