In a recent editorial published in Science, Microsoft's chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz, and researcher Robert West ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have ...

Hans-Georg Gadamer offers us a unique way of conceiving of human understanding as a social, linguistic, back-and-forth ...

AI's struggle with continuous learning reveals a critical gap between artificial and human cognitive processes.

While it might feel as though artificial intelligence is getting dangerously smart, there are still some basic concepts that AI doesn’t comprehend as well as humans do. Back in March, we reported that ...

KAIST researchers solved a key challenge in the commercialization of physical AI by developing a new technology that enables ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess champion, doomsayers proclaimed it was the beginning of the end. That was nearly three decades ago, and contrary to those dire predictions, humans haven't ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

More than 8 major philosophical perspectives, from Homo sapiens to Homo viator, have attempted to explain human nature, human ...

Human-machine understanding (HMU) represents the next frontier in human-centric technology. By integrating insights from human behavioural data, cognitive science and psychology with artificial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Luis E. Romero is an entrepreneur, author and speaker. “Who’s smarter—humans or AI?” Experts and the general public wrestle with ...