We have an exciting opportunity for a postdoc to join an EPSRC-funded collaborative project, which aims to provide decision-making assistance in adversarial real-time strategy games ('wargames') using...

Vulnerable people more at risk as research finds only half of local authority plans require cooling strategies

Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmarks for Large Language Models (LLMs) typically rely on passive question-answering formats, but the deployment of LLMs in increasingly agentic and autonomous forms demands n...

Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger brains do.

A fully automated methodology based on rubrics capturing a broad range of cognitive and intellectual demands is illustrated using LLMs and tasks, demonstrating a new way to evaluate the capabilities of AI systems and anticipate their performance.

Obesity, diet and physical activity have independently been shown to impact cognition and memory. However, these factors have rarely been considered together in humans, and thus their relative cont...

In a speech to Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney lays out the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order