The first cohort of CAS Fellows consists of a six-member group of University of Mannheim professors who have come together around the interdisciplinary theme “Knowledge acquisition, representation and application in human minds and machines – an Interdisciplinary Research Initiative on Cognition and its Development in Humans and Artificial Systems”

With the rise of AI models like GPT-4, machines seem capable of mimicking human cognitive processes-thinking, perceiving, learning, and even making decisions. But do they truly think, or are they merely processing patterns in complex ways? As a group of experts working in cognitive science we explore what makes human cognition exceptional (if at all), how AI challenges our understanding of intelligence, and what we can gain from integrating AI into cognitive research.