2AI / 2AI Labs - Researching the mind, what it does, and where it's headed.

Dr. Timothy P. Barber
Director of Machine Cognition
Theoretical computer scientist and e-commerce technologist.
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Dr. Mark A. Changizi
Director of Human Cognition
Theoretical neurobiologist, science writer, and author.
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Current Projects:

• The human spectacle. Advanced eyewear to amplify the perception of emotions and health. (mac, tpb)

• Human 3.0. A hybrid novel about what's next, after humans. (mac)

• Squaring off. What chess, poker, and prize fights all have in common. (tpb, mac)

• Emotions. A unifying theory of human wile and guile. (mac, tpb)

• Saving face. The evolutionary design principles of the human face. (mac)

• The Groundhog Day problem. Learning the hard way, and how far to backtrack when things go horribly wrong. (tpb)

• Sociopathic machines. How the Turing test, Google, and IBM, are pushing us into an era of artificial con artists. (tpb)

• Digital criminals 2012. Countermeasures for defeating sentient opponents, and why neural nets fall short. (tpb)