Speaking on the prospect of artificial general intelligence, LeCun suggested it’s a misnomer, because human intelligence, in his view, is not general. He prefers the term “human-level intelligence,” ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says it’s coming soon. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and former Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun think it ...

As humans, we rely on all sorts of stimuli to navigate in the world, including our senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. Until now, AI devices have been solely reliant on a single sense—visual ...

In performance and functional diversity, the system, TongGeometry, has fully outperformed international benchmarks, including DeepMind's AlphaGeometry. This represents a major step forward in ...

While benchmarking any intellectual ability is tough, doing so for AGI presents special challenges. That’s in part because people strongly disagree on its definition: Some define AGI by its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I continue my special series covering the ...

Homo sapiens had a good run. But OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said Thursday AGI — or artificial general intelligence, where AI models can perform any intellectual task that humans can — will be reached ...

Regardless of what comprises general intelligence, at first blush the mere existence of a general intelligence factor seems incompatible with the strong modularity view of the mind-- g is ...

Will AI need a body to come close to human-like intelligence? But these aren’t just speculative questions anymore. Roboticists today are wrestling with the question of whether artificial intelligence ...

If the contents of the human brain are domain-specific, as evolutionary psychologists contend, how can evolutionary psychology explain general intelligence, which is seemingly domain-general? General ...