Critical thinking is an essential skill in the workplace, particularly for skilled job seekers aiming for salaries of $100,000 or more per year. It involves analyzing facts, evaluating evidence, and ...

I t has been almost 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined at a 1956 Dartmouth College summer workshop. The conference was convened by the mathematician John McCarthy, who ...

Thinking models, like the new 2.5 Pro (experimental), are designed to improve AI's reasoning capabilities. Unlike traditional AI models that primarily focus on generating text, thinking models break ...

In a new paper, researchers from Tencent AI Lab Seattle and the University of Maryland, College Park, present a reinforcement learning technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize ...

Could the widespread adoption of generative AI (Gen AI) tools in the workplace erode our cognitive abilities? New research suggests that worrying reality is a possibility. A paper from Microsoft and ...

The rise of AI has proven to be a watershed moment in history, with countless arguments for and against its use in practically every industry and use case conceivable. With generative AI receiving the ...

The critical thinking literature (e.g., Bensley, 2023) suggests assessment of critical thinking would ideally include aspects of motivational dispositions. Identified dispositions are open-mindedness, ...

In a series of experiments described in Science Magazine in 2011, a trio of researchers found evidence to support a sneaking suspicion bubbling up in the minds of many Google aficionados: Frequent ...

I recently asked a fellow academic, in conversation, how they try to integrate critical thinking into their classroom, and they replied that they don’t have "much time for that kind of thing." I ...

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Trusting artificial intelligence over the real thing seems, per a new study, to be atrophying folks’ critical thinking skills. “Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of ...

Just days ahead of the much-anticipated Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple has released a study titled “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning ...