The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

Amalia Bastos first met Kanzi the bonobo in 2023. Bastos was “starstruck,” she recalls: Kanzi was famous for learning how to communicate with humans using a keyboard of symbols. Upon first seeing ...

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language models signal an ...

AI became powerful because of interacting mechanisms: neural networks, backpropagation and reinforcement learning, attention, ...

Meaningfulness is key factor in determining how strongly our affect is attached to our goals. People are willing to withstand ...