A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before any interactions with Homo sapiens. A total of 15 small marine fossils were found in ...

This is an opinion editorial by Sydney Bright, a software developer with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. Bitcoin is not merely a medium of exchange. That is not to say that bitcoin is not ...

The very modern human traits of complex and abstract thinking may have evolved in Africa 77,000 years ago--almost twice as early as previously believed--according to a team of anthropologists who ...

With the rise of chatbots—computer programs designed to simulate human conversation—and now LLMs, many believe that a computer using LLMs would be able to convince the interrogator that it was human, ...

The new research has been exploring a psychological phenomenon called “relational concept learning.” This means the ability to identify and retain logical relations between stimuli and apply them to ...

Will artificial intelligences ever be able to match humans in abstract thought, or are they just very fancy number crunchers? Researchers at Google DeepMind are trying to find out by challenging AIs ...