On February 18, astronomers determined that a 130- to 300-foot-long asteroid had a 3.1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032. Never had an asteroid of such dangerous dimensions stood such a high chance of striking the planet. What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mindToday’s AI landscape is defined by the ways in which neural networks are unlike human brains. Last week, the prestigious journal Nature published a pair of studies showcasing the use of neural networks for predicting how humans and other animals behave in psychological experiments.