Scientists say social interaction is 'the dark matter of AI'

A pair of researchers from the University of Montreal today published a pre-print research paper on creating "more intelligent artificial agents" by imitating the human brain. We've heard that one before, but this time's a little different. The big idea here is all about giving artificial intelligence agents more agency. Despite the progress made in social neuroscience and in developmental psychology, only in the last decade, serious efforts have started focusing on the neural mechanisms of social interaction, which were seen as the "dark matter" of social neuroscience. Basically, there's something other than just algorithms and architecture that makes our brains tick.