Both humans and other animals are good at learning by inference, using information we do have to figure out things we cannot observe directly. New research from the Center for Mind and Brain at the ...

Children who suddenly appear to lose the thread of an otherwise obvious conversation often do so because they cannot combine two key communicative skills until surprisingly late in their development, ...

The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use ...

Thanks to “data inference” technology, companies know more about you than you disclose. By Zeynep Tufekci Dr. Tufekci is a professor of information science who specializes in the social effects of ...

New research explains why children sometimes lose the thread of a seemingly obvious conversation, particularly when talking on the phone or a video call. Children who suddenly appear to lose the ...