Reasoning is often thought of as being the exact opposite of intuitions. A typical example of intuition is the first impression we form when we meet someone new. It comes spontaneously and quickly to ...

Medal, a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips, has spun out a new frontier AI research lab that’s using its trove of gaming videos to train and build foundation models and AI agents ...

Research in mathematics is a deeply imaginative and intuitive process. This might come as a surprise for those who are still recovering from high-school algebra. What does the world look like at the ...

A new series of experiments suggests that people consistently view slow, deliberative thinking as a sign of higher intelligence and reliability compared to fast, intuitive thinking, even when both ...

The capacity to intuitively understand physical interactions is a fundamental aspect of human cognitive development. From infancy, individuals exhibit an implicit grasp of object behaviour and ...

Deep Cogito, a lesser-known AI research startup based in San Francisco founded by ex-Googlers, has released four new open-ish large language models (LLMs) that attempt something few others do: ...

Thanks to Malcolm Gladwell and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, we’ve all been sternly warned about the risks of employing intuition when making important decisions. In his book Blink, ...

Intuition is the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning or an explanation. The use of intuition is sometimes referred to as responding to a "gut ...

How a Bren School PhD fellow helps high school students shift from focusing on the what, toward a deeper interest in the how.