When you type things into the prompt of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) program such as ChatGPT, the program gives you a response based not just on what you've typed, but also all the things ...

Modern artificial intelligence systems operate with a fundamental paradox: they demonstrate remarkable reasoning capabilities while simultaneously suffering from systematic amnesia. Large language ...

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

A thief sneaks into a museum late at night. They pass by a pair of statues—or were they suits of armor? You see them take a necklace. Or wait. Didn’t the news report say it was a watch? Our memories ...

Quelle dommage, amirite?! But, what if I told you that a study in the journal Neurology of Aging suggests there’s something people can do that makes it less likely any of these kinds of things will ...

Large language models (LLMs) deliver impressive results, but are they truly capable of reaching or surpassing human ...

Our memories form the foundation of our continuing sense of self. Our understanding of who we are is built up from a lifetime of experiences stored in our brain. Loss of that information about who you ...

In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque loop through purgatory, as effectively the same problems are being solved over and over, with previous ...