# Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

**Published:** October 23, 2026
**Author:** Adam Zewe | MIT News
**Source:** MIT News — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/q-a-how-ai-came-to-model-the-messy-human-mind

Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential for a machine that could think like a human, contends Benjamin Lindquist, an assistant professor in the MIT History Section, who…

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**Tags:** #OpenAI #Anthropic

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