A new study has suggested that baboons can solve abstract reasoning problems using cognitive tools previously thought, among primates, to be solely the reserve of humans. The study, publishing in ...

Twenty years ago, a pair of researchers in England reported on a series of experiments in which they showed that very young children could, in the context of play, solve logic problems that they ...

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. AI has gotten pretty good at completing specific tasks, but it’s still a long way from having general intelligence, the kind of all around smarts that would let AI navigate the ...

When we think about the smartest animals, chimpanzees are usually the first to come to mind. Experiments show that they can memorize sequences of numbers, learn the meaning of words and associate ...

Age-related declines in abstract reasoning ability predict increasing depressive symptoms in subsequent years, according to data from a longitudinal study of older adults in Scotland. Age-related ...

New reasoning models have something interesting and compelling called “chain of thought.” What that means, in a nutshell, is that the engine spits out a line of text attempting to tell the user what ...