In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

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Emerging practitioners are using AI not to replace human understanding, but to deepen it. They are developing new tools to ...

What can a honey bee tell us about human learning? According to researchers at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University, ...

Philosophers are generally expected to display wisdom and calm in the face of existential questions. I am just not one of those philosophers. I spent 30 years racing away from these thoughts by ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

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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 ...

We’ve blown past the Turing test, but "indistinguishable" isn’t "equivalent." Psychology must continue to learn from people, and there is still a great deal to learn.

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 ...

People have been trying to talk with animals for decades and we might be on the precipice of pulling it off. While previous attempts utilized such questionable methods as dosing dolphins with LSD, ...

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