An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

Philosophers are generally expected to display wisdom and calm in the face of existential questions. I am just not one of those philosophers. I spent 30 years racing away from these thoughts by ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess champion, doomsayers proclaimed it was the beginning of the end. That was nearly three decades ago, and contrary to those dire predictions, humans haven't ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, researchers compared the theory of mind capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and humans through a comprehensive battery of ...

Human-machine understanding (HMU) represents the next frontier in human-centric technology. By integrating insights from human behavioural data, cognitive science and psychology with artificial ...

While it might feel as though artificial intelligence is getting dangerously smart, there are still some basic concepts that AI doesn’t comprehend as well as humans do. Back in March, we reported that ...

AI is threatening to destroy human neural potential and turn us into servants or cyborgs, and the only way to remain in charge of AI is to gain insight into our own minds and understand the human mind ...