AI Reports · MIT · 2026-10-23 · Blog / commentary
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
MIT assistant professor Benjamin Lindquist discusses his research on how randomness and irrationality were built into early AI models meant to mimic human creativity. In a new paper in Past and Present, he traces the origins of AI hallucinations to this work and suggests that building machines that mimic human behavior involves unavoidable tradeoffs between creativity and predictability.