In this thought‑provoking episode of the Data Malarkey podcast, Master Data Storyteller, Sam Knowles, talks with Professor Chris Summerfield – cognitive neuroscientist at Oxford and author of These Strange New Minds – about how modern AI challenges our understanding of human intelligence. The conversation is grounded, intentional, and free from sensationalism – true to the ethos of the podcast. Blurring the boundaries between prediction and thought Summerfield argues that large language models (LLMs) already mirror aspects of our own cognitive process. By learning to predict the next token in vast datasets, they extract the structure of...