Human beings are programmed to approach pleasure and avoid pain. It's an instinct that dates back millions of years, to a time when people needed to actively seek food, clothing and shelter every day, ...
In the first pages of her book Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist working at Stanford University, tells the story of a patient who masturbated for hours a day using a machine he ...
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...
Redheaded women give a new meaning to red hot. Aside from their striking appearance, women with naturally red locks have several other enviable differences than those with other hair colors. The ...
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Researchers made an AI feel pain, because what could go wrong?
Pleasure and pain are important factors in how we humans make decisions. So why not give artificial intelligence a taste of ...
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