How AI is quietly changing what we think the human mind is (opens in new tab)

In the summer of 2009, Anil Seth spent an unforgettable week with about a dozen Octopus vulgaris, the common octopus. At biologist Graziano Fiorito’s lab, set in a dank basement beneath a public aquarium in the heart of Naples, he watched these astonishing creatures change shape, color, and texture almost like living weather. He watched what they were paying attention to — the way they gathered to stare intently at his colleague’s work, apparently trying to understand what was happening “for ...