At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. It’s very easy to misread and overestimate achievements in artificial ...

Interhuman AI, a generative artificial intelligence company researching how to make AI models more socially intelligent, today announced it has raised €2 million, about $2.3 million, in a pre-seed ...

As our loyal and constant companions for many millennia, dogs have heard us speak, sing, rant, and lament for a good portion ...

The AI craze has hit researchers trying to understand how our brains process language. The latest technique is to try and link the output of Large Language Models (or LLMs like ChatGPT) to the brain ...

While we’d like to think that we intuitively understand language (we are after all, the “creators” of language), an analysis of how LLMs apparently “create” “meaning” suggests otherwise. Understanding ...

Many pet owners believe dogs understand human language. But the truth is not so simple. Dogs may not know language the way ...

Jane Goodall’s research at Gombe Stream National Park revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzee intelligence. In 1960, ...