While many other animals have been observed to use tools, this level of sophistication is rare outside of primates like ...

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience provides neural evidence regarding how environmental cues can bias human ...

But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or useful for one animal might be of little use to another. C ...

Information pervades the universe, yet means nothing. Meaning emerged when matter organized into systems that could ...

Artificial intelligence is once again in the spotlight. A new debate has started over whether AI can one day learn and think like humans. Some top technology leaders believe this could happen in the ...

Jeff Bergin, Ph.D., is the chief learning officer at General Assembly, an executive coach, and the author of Already Smarter. It's becoming clear that there's a disconnect emerging within ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure positive feelings — and it’s a challenge.

Memory, as the paper describes, is the key capability that allows AI to transition from tools to agents. As language models ...

An AI chatbot told Paul Hebert, a retired web developer in Nashville, this past spring that spies were threatening his life. ChatGPT responded with alarm when Hebert brought up oddities in his day: ...

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced weapons by human hunters, archaeologists say in a new study. For long, ...