psychologist who revolutionized the way we think about thinking

Credit: Norman Y. Lono/The New York Times/Redux/eyevine Israeli US psychologist Daniel Kahneman was sceptical when Amos Tversky — his colleague at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — gave a lecture on the rational-agent model of economic thinking, which assumes that people typically make rational decisions. This sparked an intense collaboration, and, beginning in the 1970s, … Read more

Training AI to use System 2 thinking to tackle more complex tasks

Artificial intelligence seems to be on the brink of another significant transformation nearly every week at the moment, and this week is no exception. As developers, businesses and researchers  dive deeper into the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, we’re beginning to see a shift in how these systems tackle complex problems. The … Read more