AI & Cognition
Audrey Erbert
Audrey Erbert makes artificial intelligence understandable. Drawing on cognitive science and technology, she writes for curious readers who want to understand how machines learn, represent information, and make decisions, and what those mechanisms reveal about how human cognition actually works.
Erbert treats AI as an object of serious inquiry rather than spectacle. She is interested in what modern learning systems force us to clarify, including what counts as understanding, how error functions in learning, and where intuition diverges from mechanism.
A sustained engagement with cognitive science and technology shaped her conviction that readers deserve models, not just metaphors.
Her work brings patient explanation back to AI. By staying close to how systems actually function, Erbert invites readers to think more clearly about machines and about the cognitive habits we take for granted in ourselves.
Book by Audrey Erbert
Dispatches by Audrey Erbert
"Then you remember what you're talking to."
The Feeling of Being Understood
You say something. It responds with something that makes sense. For a moment, the difference between prediction and understanding dissolves.
"She knows none of these objects have feelings. And yet."
The Mind-Shaped Hole
We come into the world primed to find minds. The cost of missing a real one is catastrophic. The cost of falsely detecting one is merely embarrassing.
"Everyone is right, and everyone is talking past each other."
What We Talk About When We Talk About Intelligence
We use the word intelligence constantly, and mean something different each time. This is why conversations about it feel slippery.