Jim Davies

The hidden logic behind what pops into your head.

What a popular theory of perception gets wrong.

A cognitive scientist on the pleasures of generative image programs.

What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less.

If only the 18th-century hoaxer could see his “Mechanical Turk” now.

People of all political stripes can spot misinformation. They just need a nudge.

Delphi uses machine learning to tell us right from wrong—and much in between.

By now everybody’s heard about the terrible treatment that pigs and chickens get in factory farms. For many, the solution seems obvious: eat less meat. But let’s look at that solution in terms of how effective it is.According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American eats about 30 farm animals per […]

It might be more accurate to think of many of the brain’s 10 billion neurons as being deep networks, with five to eight layers in each one.

For many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places. Our stimuli these days, in other words, aren’t very stimulating. Too much day-to-day routine, too much […]