A recent study provides evidence that the human ability to reason logically operates independently of the brain’s language ...

Against the backdrop of accelerating large-scale AI deployment, the traditional human-centric AI monitoring frameworks are ...

Scientists say that a new vector-based approach to cognition could signal the start of the "post-transformer" era of AI ...

How agents acquire abstract concepts from sparse, diverse examples—often without explicit supervision—remains a central ...

In a three-week midterm project, students investigated whether AI literacy can be taught to undergrads.

End-to-end optimization often rewards specialized AI modules for cheating. Role Anchor is a new method that forces models to stay in their lanes and avoid drifting from their roles.

If you've already completed Wordle for the day, we've got just the thing. An online puzzle designed to challenge your skills in abstract thinking is free to play, and it's not just a frivolous ...

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled. I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI ...

Re “Cambridge Public Schools’ algebra problem” (Letters, July 20): One of the two letters in Monday’s edition asks why students are still being forced to take Algebra I. There are two issues: One is ...

Most organizations recognize the importance of having employees who do more than take instructions or apply rules. Critical thinkers ask questions and challenge assumptions, behaviors known to be ...

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, published a sweeping research paper on Sunday revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed an internal structure that mirrors ...