So, when structure arrives first, it carries a sense of authority. The answer appears already assembled, already confident.

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“Mom! What were you thinking?” my daughter said to me last week, eyes wide, voice strained. The tables had turned. She was suddenly parenting me. And rightfully so. “Did she just ‘mom’ you?” my oldest ...

I don’t know about you, but I recall always being told, growing up, about the importance of wisdom—as some kind of life-learning objective, as if it were the pinnacle of cognitive development. There’s ...

David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike other creative processes, like making music, which can be heard, ...

In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...

Why are AI chatbots so intelligent—capable of understanding complex ideas, crafting surprisingly good short stories, and intuitively grasping what users mean? The truth is, we don’t fully know. Large ...

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Geoffrey Hinton is known as the “godfather of artificial intelligence (AI)” for his pioneering work on neural networks. He is a computer scientist, a cognitive psychologist, and he won the Nobel Prize ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...