Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis. Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence. Nature Neuroscience (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02169-w

Abstract
“Biological intelligence is inherently adaptive—animals continually adjust their actions in response to environmental feedback. However, creating adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) remains a major challenge. The next frontier is to go beyond traditional AI to develop ‘adaptive intelligence’, defined here as harnessing insights from biological intelligence to build agents that can learn online, generalize and rapidly adapt to changes in their environment. Recent advances in neuroscience offer inspiration through studies that increasingly focus on how animals naturally learn and adapt their models of the world. This Perspective reviews the behavioral and neural foundations of adaptive biological intelligence, examines parallel progress in AI, and explores brain-inspired approaches for building more adaptive algorithms.”

Mathis, M.W. Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence. Nat Neurosci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02169-w