Artificial intelligence may write award-winning essays and diagnose disease with remarkable accuracy, but biological brains still hold the upper hand in at least one crucial domain: flexibility.

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...

Artificial intelligence may write award-winning essays and diagnose disease with remarkable accuracy, but biological brains still hold the upper hand in at least one crucial domain: flexibility.

Artificial intelligence can already beat grandmasters at Go, draft legal briefs, and generate photorealistic images in seconds, yet it still struggles with the kind of flexible, context-rich learning ...

Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over computers in its ability to transfer skills and learn across tasks. A new study ...

Since the dawn of human history, innovation has been a balancing act of wonder and fear. From the discovery of fire to the first flights of airplanes, each technological breakthrough has promised to ...

Princeton researchers found that a primate’s prefrontal cortex reuses modular “cognitive Legos” to solve related tasks, giving biological brains a flexibility that AI still lacks. The insight could ...