Modern artificial intelligence systems operate with a fundamental paradox: they demonstrate remarkable reasoning capabilities while simultaneously suffering from systematic amnesia. Large language ...

A thief sneaks into a museum late at night. They pass by a pair of statues—or were they suits of armor? You see them take a necklace. Or wait. Didn’t the news report say it was a watch? Our memories ...

When you type things into the prompt of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) program such as ChatGPT, the program gives you a response based not just on what you've typed, but also all the things ...

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

Quelle dommage, amirite?! But, what if I told you that a study in the journal Neurology of Aging suggests there’s something people can do that makes it less likely any of these kinds of things will ...

In an era dominated by keyboards, voice notes and AI-generated text, one surprisingly powerful brain-boosting habit is ...

Our memories form the foundation of our continuing sense of self. Our understanding of who we are is built up from a lifetime of experiences stored in our brain. Loss of that information about who you ...