How a controversial tech from the 2000s could transform AI to make it cheaper, faster and almost indestructible.

We all have the habit of trying to guess the killer in a movie before the big reveal. That’s us making inferences. It’s what happens when your brain connects the dots without being told everything ...

A new study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp. A new ...

Within the first year of life, children can make transitive inferences about a social hierarchy of dominance. Human infants are capable of deductive problem solving as early as 10 months of age, a new ...

A formal logical system rests on foundational truths, known as axioms, which are so self-evident they require no proof. It then uses rules of inference to deduce further true assertions.