In a recent editorial published in Science, Microsoft's chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz, and researcher Robert West ...

Hans-Georg Gadamer offers us a unique way of conceiving of human understanding as a social, linguistic, back-and-forth ...

For centuries, people have wondered what separates being awake from being asleep, dreaming, or unconscious. Scientists have ...

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 ...

Since Copernicus, nothing has done more to upend our understanding of the world than Kant’s idea that the human mind actively ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess champion, doomsayers proclaimed it was the beginning of the end. That was nearly three decades ago, and contrary to those dire predictions, humans haven't ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

More than 8 major philosophical perspectives, from Homo sapiens to Homo viator, have attempted to explain human nature, human ...

KAIST researchers solved a key challenge in the commercialization of physical AI by developing a new technology that enables ...

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 ...