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How we use abstract thinking

Connecting ideas in creative ways
Futurism

DeepMind Created a Test to Measure an AI’s Ability to Reason

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 world the same way humans or even animals do.
Psychology Today

Can LLMs Think Like Us?

In the complexity of human cognition, the hippocampus stands as a central player, orchestrating more than just the storage of memories. It is a master of inference—a cognitive ability that allows us to go beyond the raw data we receive and extract ...
Miami University

Miami, ODHE partnership helps K-12 teachers provide pattern recognition and abstract thinking skills to students

The Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) and Miami University’s College of Education, Health, and Society (EHS) and College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) have partnered to make a new series of Computational Thinking Modules available for K-12 ...
ZDNet

These AI models reason better than their open-source peers - but still can't rival humans

Can artificial intelligence (AI) pass cognitive puzzles designed for human IQ tests? The results were mixed. Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute (ISI) investigated whether multi-modal large language models ...