Statistically speaking, you’ve probably already pressed a like button several times today. If you’re under 20 years old, even more. Perhaps you recently posted on Instagram or Facebook and have been ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

In today’s fast-paced world, speed is celebrated. Instant messaging outpaces thoughtful letters, and rapid-fire tweets replace reflective essays. We've become conditioned to believe that faster is ...

One of the many quibbles I have with the term artificial general intelligence (AGI) is philosophical as much as technical. We define AGI as the point at which AI systems match or surpass human ...

Artificial intelligence may have impressive inferencing powers, but don't count on it to have anything close to human reasoning powers anytime soon. The march to so-called artificial general ...

Chinese researchers claim to have found evidence that large language models (LLMs) can comprehend and process natural objects like human beings. This, they suggest, is done spontaneously even without ...