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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 ...
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 ...
Artificial intelligence has demonstrated astonishing capabilities, from mastering language to generating stunning artworks and defeating chess grandmasters. Yet, a profound question remains: Can AI ...
In her January Scientific American piece titled "What Animals Know about Where Babies Come From," anthropologist Holly Dunsworth makes a convincing case that despite popular assumptions to the ...
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 ...