From a teacher’s body language, inflection, and other context clues, students often infer subtle information far beyond the lesson plan. And it turns out artificial-intelligence systems can do the ...

We are constantly learning new things as we go about our lives. In addition to learning new facts, procedures, and concepts, we are also refining our sensory abilities. How and when these sensory ...

Go to almost any classroom and, within minutes, you’re likely to hear a frazzled teacher say: “Let’s pay attention.” But researchers have long known that it’s not always necessary to pay attention to ...

AI is changing the rules — at least, that seems to be the warning behind Anthropic's latest unsettling study about the current state of AI. According to the study, which was published this month, ...

Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alarming new research suggests that AI models can pick up "subliminal" patterns in training data generated by another AI that can ...

I've recently taken up learning a language, mainly using the periods when I'm commuting to and from the office to use audio lessons, with some follow-up study later to look at writing and better ...

Tapes promising to "build your vocabulary while you sleep" have long been debunked by modern science, but the brain can absorb certain data unconsciously. Takeo Watanabe, Ph.D., director of the ...