AI Cognition

The Problem with Problems: Why LLMs Still Don’t Know What’s Interesting

Opening — Why this matters now In an age when AI can outscore most humans in the International Mathematical Olympiad, a subtler question has emerged: can machines care about what they solve? The new study A Matter of Interest (Mishra et al., 2025) explores this psychological fault line—between mechanical brilliance and genuine curiosity. If future AI partners are to co‑invent mathematics, not just compute it, they must first learn what humans deem worth inventing. ...

Smarter, Not Wiser: What Happens When AI Boosts Our Efficiency but Not Our Minds

Opening — Why this matters now In a world obsessed with productivity hacks and digital assistants, a new study offers a sobering reminder: being faster is not the same as being smarter. As tools like ChatGPT quietly integrate into workplaces and classrooms, the question isn’t whether they make us more efficient — they clearly do — but whether they actually reshape the human mind. Recent findings from the Universidad de Palermo suggest they don’t. ...