When faced with something new, human beings instinctively reach for comparisons. A child learning about atoms might hear that electrons orbit the nucleus “like planets orbit the sun.” An entrepreneur ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

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McKinsey’s top leader says leadership, judgment and creativity—not pedigree—will define consulting careers in the A.I. era.

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As AI systems have advanced rapidly, with large language models (LLMs) at the center, every tech executive has experienced their limits—when AI systems struggle with complex problem-solving, produce ...

LaRS: Latent Reasoning Skills for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning. Zifan Xu, Haozhu Wang, Dmitriy Bespalov, Xian Wu, Peter Stone, and Yanjun Qi. @InProceedings{zifan_xu_emnlp2024, author = {Zifan Xu and ...

OpenAI Group PBC has announced the first major upgrade to its flagship GPT‑5 large language model, following mixed reviews when it launched in August. The update is intended to make ChatGPT “smarter ...

Many research studies imply that argument mapping can enhance writers' abilities in argumentation and critical thinking; however, we need to consolidate the available evidence as the first step to ...

Shannon Pruden receives funding from National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development and National Science Foundation. Karinna Rodriguez does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a new technique that flips the script on how large language models (LLMs) learn to reason. The method, called reinforcement learning pre-training (RLP), integrates ...