Are Recent Generative AI Models ‘Thinking’ Thanks to ‘Brain-Inspired’ Design Choices?

The very expression ‘artificial intelligence’ evokes a combination between a quality we mainly attribute to biological systems—intelligence—and an automated (‘artificial’) process. These two domains are drawn together by an ambition to ‘crack the code’ of some intelligent (human) behaviour, and to use the resulting knowledge to design an artificial system capable of reproducing such a behaviour.

The Humans Behind AI

Recently, one YouTuber I follow has been criticised for posting an AI-generated video on his Instagram account. This video was quite different from the usual, news-related content from his channel; it seemed like a nonsensical parody of a cartoon’s theme song, with the YouTuber himself as the main character.