GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. AI has gotten pretty good at completing specific tasks, but it’s still a long way from having general intelligence, the kind of all around smarts that would let AI navigate the ...

Age-related declines in abstract reasoning ability predict increasing depressive symptoms in subsequent years, according to data from a longitudinal study of older adults in Scotland. Age-related ...

A seemingly intense "abstract reasoning" job assessment has gained traction online, with Reddit users finding themselves struggling to solve it. The task itself has sparked criticism over the use of ...

A team of neuroscientists at MIT and other institutions has found that even when schools take instructional steps that help raise student scores on high-stakes tests, that influence doesn't translate ...

There’s more to the intelligence of autistic people than meets the IQ. Unlike most individuals, children and adults diagnosed as autistic often score much higher on a challenging, nonverbal test of ...

A team of Apple researchers has released a paper scrutinising the mathematical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), suggesting that while these models can exhibit abstract reasoning ...

Apple researchers conducted a study on LLMs to evaluate their mathematical reasoning abilities and found that these models rely on probabilistic pattern-matching, not formal reasoning. They recorded ...