the latest in "if it's in Nature, you can be sure it's hogwash"

the abstract:

Our findings suggest that shared neural dynamics represent a fundamental and generalizable feature of interacting neural systems present in both biological and artificial agents and highlight the functional significance of shared neural dynamics in driving social interactions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09196-4

the press release:

"We've shown for the first time that the neural mechanisms driving social interaction are remarkably similar between biological brains and artificial intelligence systems. This suggests we've identified a fundamental principle of how any intelligent system—whether biological or artificial—processes social information."

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/study-finds-parallels-between-biological-and-artificial

the reality - movements that happen at the same time correlate with global changes in neural activity at the same time. gee whiz

we found that activities of GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons explained the majority of behavioural features above chance, and most strongly represented the derivatives of body position (speed and acceleration) and posture features (distance between body and tail)