A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has said that inconsistency in artificial intelligence (AI) is a major reason why AI can perform exceptionally well in some areas but still fail at simpler tasks.

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