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title: "Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind"
date: 2026-10-23
source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/qa-how-ai-came-to-model-messy-human-mind-1023
description: "Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate."
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# Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

*Published: 2026-10-23*