In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability thought to be uniquely ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. To prepare for my new column project on regaining our humanity, I asked ...

Everyone is talking about intelligent agents these days, but I have to admit I’m not totally convinced. The whole world is raving about how important and unique these things are, and I’m just not sold ...

Rohit Patel, Founder & CEO of QuickAI and director in Meta Superintelligence Labs. He works on reinforcement learning, agents, and evals. As the AI community focuses on reasoning models, the ones that ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.