Is humanity at a crossroads, potentially in the crosshairs of malign AI? We may not know, but best not to ignore the ...

We’ve blown past the Turing test, but "indistinguishable" isn’t "equivalent." Psychology must continue to learn from people, ...

Putting humans and LLMs head-to-head in classic tests of judgment from human psychology underscores the differences between ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can ...

The researchers found they could hack the AI’s creativity by turning this knob. As they cranked the temperature up, the ...

Can an AI truly think like a human? A model named Centaur, which can mimic human performance on 160 cognitive tasks, is now under scrutiny. Recent research suggests it may not genuinely understand the ...

Cars with self-driving features are supposed to promise a safer and more convenient future. But there's a problem: human brains weren't designed for the strange new role these vehicles demand of us.

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

A bonobo demonstrated the ability to track imaginary objects in controlled tests, challenging the belief that imagination is uniquely human and hinting at deep evolutionary roots. In a set of ...

On Thursday, February 12, the Lex Fridman Podcast, featured Peter Steinberger, a software engineer and the creator of the ...

This research study assessing 23,000 mother-child pairs found that higher maternal depression around the period of birth may impair mother-infant bonding and increases the risk of autism in their ...

Put simply, generative AI is not inherently beneficial or harmful. Its impact depends on how it interacts with teachers’ ...