Babies are sophisticated mini-statisticians, a new study finds, capable of making judgments about the probability of an event they've never seen before. Using a computer model, researchers were able ...

ability to process quantitative research and engage in educational practices. GRAPHIC BY MAYA DEVERAUX/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Despite a recent report that most college students do not actively use ...

In a recent study published in npj Digital Medicine, researchers developed diagnostic reasoning prompts to investigate whether large language models (LLMs) could simulate diagnostic clinical reasons.

For years, even the best chatbots in the world were hard-pressed to succeed in the Turing Test, an assessment of whether an AI can pass as a human intelligence. Today's powerful generative artificial ...

Our ability to reason did not develop simply to help us find the truth. Instead, reasoning evolved to fulfill fundamentally social functions, like cooperating in large groups and communicating with ...

Artificial intelligence can now reason as well as the average college student. Dr Geoffrey Hinton, who is seen as one of the godfathers of AI, warned recently that the technology 'may soon be' more ...

Running into a wasp — or even worse, several wasps — on a nice summer day can be terrifying. Unlike honeybees, some wasp species are aggressive, and if they decide your can of Mt. Dew is actually ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...