Figures can be used as the ‘lingua franca’ when it comes to intelligence testing since a triangle – although it doesn’t sound identical – looks identical to the both Chilean and Japanese. The same is ...

Computers aren’t really known for their way with words, but that could be about to change. An artificial intelligence program recently scored as high as a 4-year-old on a test of verbal IQ. The result ...

Microsoft and university researchers in China have proven that we may just talk a good game when it comes to competing verbally with computers. Computers are known for their mathematical proficiency, ...

Science just took us a small step closer to HAL 9000. A new artificial intelligence (AI) program designed by Chinese researchers has beat humans on a verbal IQ test. Scoring well on the verbal section ...

Researchers at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg in Göteborg, Sweden, have created a computer program that can score 150 on standard ...