The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of. Since their public release less than two years ago, large ...

“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know,” the 18th-century British writer Lord Chesterfield advised his son. But common sense doesn’t stay that way. While it appears ...

Amid the campus grounds of Brandeis University, housed in the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections, is one of America’s most significant primary documents, a pamphlet, written by ...

A few years ago, a computer scientist named Yejin Choi gave a presentation at an artificial-intelligence conference in New Orleans. On a screen, she projected a frame from a newscast where two anchors ...

In my youth, I came to understand the term "common sense" as implying that though you may not have extensive knowledge about a topic or even extensive skill in reasoning, you likely have enough of ...

The problem with common sense, goes an old joke, is that it is not so common. A less-recognized problem is that sometimes it doesn’t make sense, either. Those contradictions were on display during a ...

Hot trends in corporate culture and management technique evolve from decade to decade, often in alignment with prevailing social trends. Recently, the “empowered workplace” has become popular, ...